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peck   (TTS Sound)

The noun peck has 3 senses

• batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money")


• peck -- (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons)


• peck -- (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)

The verb peck has 5 senses

• peck, pick, beak -- (hit lightly with a picking motion)


• peck, pick up -- (eat by pecking at, like a bird)


• smack, peck -- (kiss lightly)


• pick at, peck at, peck -- (eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food")


• nag, peck, hen-peck -- (bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long")