pecking
verb
- 1
To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
“The birds pecked at their food.”
- 2
To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
“to peck a hole in a tree”
- 3
To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- 4
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- 5
To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
“He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.”
- 6
To type by searching for each key individually.
- 7
To type in general.
- 8
To kiss briefly.
verb
- 1
To throw.
- 2
To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
noun
- 1
The act by which something is pecked.
“the peckings of hungry chickens”
- 2
The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.
- 3
The sport of throwing pebbles at birds.
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