Pecking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PECKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (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
NOUN:
• the act of pecking
• 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
• food
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike with the beak or something pointed

Words related to PECKING

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How to use PECKING in a sentence

• Outwood and his band were pecking away at the site of an old Roman camp.
• I stretched her bounty, pecking, like a bird, Her figs and barley, till my strength returned.
• The chicks was all awake and pecking about hungry when I went out, but could not see anything of the cat.
• It immediately began to nod backwards and forwards in a manner suggestive of the beak of a bird pecking.
• In particular did he observe an immense number of a very small sort that were constantly pecking at a wild fig, of which there was a grove of considerable extent.
• Our geese and fowls did not appear to have been alarmed, but were pecking about as usual for worms and insects.
• But in the coop was a big slice of turnip, at which she had been pecking.
• You who were too fine to dig in the earth shall ever be pecking at dusty wood.
• And that is why to this day one sees the Woodpecker pecking so frantically on the tree trunks, anxious lest a single insect should escape.
• The hens are still pecking about in the orchard, and the grey pony is rubbing himself against a tree.
• The Druids, as well as the Etruscan and Roman priesthood, attended with diligence the flight of birds, the pecking of chickens, and the entrails of their animal sacrifices.
• He had sprung the trap in pecking at some corn that was fastened cunningly to the pan by fine wire.
• Bullets from the church were pecking up the dirt about him.
• One old rooster was stirring about, pecking at the solid lump of ice in their water-tin.
• Some hens and ducks had crept through the hedge and were pecking at the fallen apples.
• There was a man standing alone in a field and trying to beat off a flock of ravens that were swooping down and pecking at his eyes.
• I was a dead man hanging in chains, swinging, filthy vultures pecking at my dangling feet.
• While we were at breakfast a robin perched on the table and sat there a good while pecking at the sugar.
• We went on breakfasting with little heed to the robin, and the robin went on pecking with little heed to us.
• They walked along, pecking the ground, and not suspecting in any way the presence of the hunters, who, besides, had taken care to place themselves to leeward of the gallinaceae.
• Brooke, pecking away at a typewriter in his sanctum, using two fat fingers only in doing his writing rather than all of them as an expert would do.
• He walked head first down the bark, pecking here and there.
• The guests were scattered like rooks, bobbing, scratching and pecking about on the yellow mats.
• But Haw-Haw Langley was usually silent, and he would sit for hours without words, twisting his head and making little pecking motions as his eyes fastened on face after face.
• They heard how an explorer named Goren had once stood idly talking and pecking against the wall with a sharp stone when, lo! it broke through.
• Outside the church big fat-bellied pigeons were cooing about the tower or strutting and pecking on the ground.
• Its manners are curious, depressing its tail, and arching its neck, and pecking at imaginary objects in a curious way.
• A pecking which is petting and no worse than in the same morning is not the only way to be continuous often.

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