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 Peck, v. i.
 1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
    [The hen] went pecking by his side.   --Dryden.
 To peck at, (a) to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease. (a) to eat slowly and in small portions, with litle interest; as, to peck at one's food.