1. peck - noun
· (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"
Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good_deal, great_deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite_a_little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy_sum, wad
Hypernym(s): large_indefinite_quantity, large_indefinite_amount
2. peck - noun
· a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
Hypernym(s): British_capacity_unit, Imperial_capacity_unit
3. peck - noun
· a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
Hypernym(s): United_States_dry_unit
4. peck - verb
· hit lightly with a picking motion
Hypernym(s): strike
5. peck - verb
· eat by pecking at, like a bird
Synonym(s): pick_up
Hypernym(s): eat
6. peck - verb
· kiss lightly
Synonym(s): smack
Hypernym(s): snog, kiss, buss, osculate
7. peck - verb
· eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
Hypernym(s): eat
8. peck - verb
· bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
Hypernym(s): complain, kick, plain, sound_off, quetch, kvetch
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