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Webster 1828 Edition


Pecking

PECK'ING

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ppr.
Striking with the bill; thrusting the beak into; thrusting into with a pointed instrument; taking up food with the beak.

Definition 2024


pecking

pecking

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Verb

pecking

  1. present participle of peck

Derived terms

Noun

pecking (countable and uncountable, plural peckings)

  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.