Peck is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PECK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to strike with a beak
• (of a bird) strike or bite something with its beak
• make (a hole) by striking with the beak
• kiss (someone) lightly or perfunctorily
• (of a person) eat (food) listlessly or daintily
• type (something) laboriously
• strike with a pick or other tool
• (of a horse) pitch forward or stumble as a result of striking the ground with the front rather than the flat of the hoof
• strike or pick up with the beak
• To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
• Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
• To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
• To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
• To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
• To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
• hit lightly with a picking motion
• eat by pecking at, like a bird
• kiss lightly
• eat like a bird
• bother persistently with trivial complaints
NOUN:
• a stroke or bite by a bird with its beak
• a light or perfunctory kiss
• a measure of capacity for dry goods, equal to a quarter of a bushel (2 imperial gallons = 9.092 litres, or 8 US quarts = 8.81 l).
• a large number or amount of something
• The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
• A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
• (often followed by `of\') a large number or amount or extent
• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
• a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
• pecking movement
• food
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike with the beak or something pointed

Words related to PECK

pecked15 pecking16 peckings17 pecks13

Words that contain PECK

pecke13 pecks13 pecky16 speck13 copeck16 kopeck18 pecked15 pecker14 peckes14 ripeck14 rypeck17 specks14 specky17 copecks17 henpeck18 kopecks19 peckers15 peckier15 pecking16 peckish18 ripecks15 ryepeck18 rypecks18 specked16 speckle15 flyspeck22 henpecks19 kenspeck20 oxpecker23 peckiest16 peckings17 ryepecks19 speckier16 speckies16 specking17 speckled17 speckles16 bespeckle19 flyspecks23 henpecked21 nutpecker17 oxpeckers24 peckishly23 speckiest17 speckless17 speckling18 bespeckled21 bespeckles20 flyspecked25 henpeckery24 henpecking22 kenspeckle22 nutpeckers18 outspeckle18 peckerwood22 woodpecker22 peckerhead22 bespeckling22 flyspecking26 outspeckles19 peckerwoods23 peckishness22 woodpeckers23 peckerheads23 henpeckeries23 speckledness21 specksioneer20 specktioneer20 peckishnesses24 specksioneers21 specktioneers21 specklednesses23

How to use PECK in a sentence

• The breath of a Saxon in a cucumber-patch would make a peck of pickles per moment.
• The slaves on our plantation were provided with very little meat In addition to the peck of corn or meal, they were allowed a little salt and a few herrings.
• Peck, at the Bank of Rochester, for the payment of seven hundred dollars, which soon was raised by Lewis on the note, for the benefit of the colony.
• Lafayette is in a peck of trouble, and received me with the utmost coldness.
• They were allowed four pounds of meat and a peck of meal for each working person.
• Peck was a surveyor and had helped at the laying out of Milwaukee.
• Strong had dashed into her bedroom to give her a hurried peck on the cheek and to say that she was off to luncheon and the matinee with Mrs.
• Crows and other birds alight by the bait and peck at it, but he pays no attention to them.
• The first peck of apples was given to Susie with great ceremony, and the next year the first bushel was carried to Colonel Blood, the Congressman.
• It would peck her cheek, and pretend to kiss her, and do all sorts of sweet little tricks.
• To this we added a peck of corn as a present to each.
• But Peter Rabbit has no sharp little claws with which to cling to logs and sticks, and right away he was in a peck of trouble.
• The stick would slip off it when Bunny reached for it, and whenever the stick came near the hen she would peck at it.
• Peck knew it too, and smiled graciously upon the general manager, for young Mr.
• Instantly Peck called Prospect 3249 and asked for Herman Joost.
• The exhausted Peck leaned against the sturdy guardian of the law and sighed.
• Joost led Peck to the telephone and the latter called up Mr.
• A peck is not too much for a family of four or five.
• He would peck out your eyes if he could, and devour you and your substance, as he has done that of many others.
• Use one peck of juicy cooking apples and two quarts of sugar.
• The poor could get a pound of meat, or a half peck of corn, and one quart of molasses for two weeks.
• The babies were beginning to break open the shell! Peck! Peck! Peck! Soon a little head came out of the shell.
• Not less than a peck is needed for a dinner for three or four.
• The food he allowed them per week, was one peck of corn for each grown person, one pound of pork, and sometimes a quart of molasses.

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