Synonyms:
peck, pick, beak
Meaning: hit lightly with a picking motion
Synonyms:
peck, pick_up
Meaning: eat by pecking at, like a bird
Usage examples
Mr. Peck was a kind of a patriarch in his own way.
"I can't tell, my dear, till I know what it is," replied Mr. Peck.
"One should only eat to sustain life," replied the Shaggy Man, "and that tablet is equal to a peck of other food."
If you have but fifty cents, and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar."
Always on leaving he gave her a tender little peck and ran his beak the length of her wing--a characteristic caress that he delighted to bestow on her.
The fox leaves the legs and hinder parts of a hare or rabbit; the weasel and stoat eat the brains, and nibble about the head, and suck the blood; crows and magpies peck at the eyes; the dog tears his prey to pieces indiscriminately; the Cat always turns the skin inside out like a glove.