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1. (noun) 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"

2. (noun) peck
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

3. (verb) peck
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

4. (verb) peck, pick, beak
hit lightly with a picking motion

5. (verb) peck, pick up
eat by pecking at, like a bird

6. (verb) smack, peck
kiss lightly

7. (verb) pick at, peck at, peck
eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"

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

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Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) PECK
the fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat

2. (noun) PECK
a great deal; a large or excessive quantity

3. (noun) PECK
a quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument

4.  PECK
to strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree

5.  PECK
hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements

6.  PECK
to seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up

7.  PECK
to make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree

8. (verb) PECK
to make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument

9. (verb) PECK
to pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat

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