The Meaning of peck

• (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
• (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
• (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
• (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
• (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
• (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
• (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
• (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

Synonyms

batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , raft , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum , wad , pick , beak , pick up , smack , pick at , peck at , nag , hen-peck

Homophones

pech

Rhymes

aztec , baek , bec , beck , bedeck , biotech , blech , bleck , bo-shek , bottleneck , breakneck , breck , brekke , brubeck , cech , check , chek , cheque , czech , dec , dech , deck , dehecq , discotheque , domecq , dreck , dubcek , dweck , eck , ek , exec , feck , fleck , francek , frech , freck , gacek , geck , heck , henpeck , jacek , jech , keck , kleck , krech , labrecque , lech , leck , lek , lubeck , macek , mcpeck , mech , meck , nec , neck , opec , parsec , paycheck , pech , placek , polytech , ptacek , quarterdeck , quebec , quek , rec , receptech , rech , recheck , reck , redneck , ringneck , roughneck , rubeck , scheck , schmeck , schneck , schreck , sec , sheck , shek , shreck , sneck , spec , speck , stec , stech , steck , streck , teaneck , tec , tech , teck , tek , trek , turtleneck , vacek , vanek , vanhecke , vanvleck , vasotec , weck , whelk , wnek , wreck , yeck , zacek , zech , zeck