verb Download 🔗Share To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). Examples : "The birds pecked at their food." animal bird action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. Examples : "to peck a hole in a tree" animal action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. Examples : "The chicken was pecking at the ground, searching for seeds. " animal bird action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. Examples : "The chickens were pecking up the scattered seeds in the yard. " animal bird action food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To do something in small, intermittent pieces. Examples : "He has been pecking away at that project for some time now." action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To type by searching for each key individually. Examples : "He was pecking at the keyboard, slowly typing his report. " technology computing communication writing machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To type in general. Examples : "She was pecking away at her keyboard, trying to finish her essay before the deadline. " computing technology internet communication writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To kiss briefly. Examples : "She gave her son a quick pecking kiss on the cheek before he left for school. " action human family Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To throw. Examples : "He was pecking stones at the lake, trying to make them skip. " action sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot. Examples : "The tired horse was pecking at the ground as it walked slowly down the dusty road, nearly tripping with each step. " animal action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act by which something is pecked. Examples : "the peckings of hungry chickens" animal action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks. Examples : "Archaeologists study ancient sites to understand the pecking used to create the stone tools. " archaeology art history material building tradition work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The sport of throwing pebbles at birds. Examples : "The old photograph showed boys engaged in pecking, a cruel activity now thankfully discouraged. " sport animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading