Definition of "peck" [peck]

• To strike with the beak or a pointed instrument. (verb-transitive)
• To make (a hole, for example) by striking repeatedly with the beak or a pointed instrument. (verb-transitive)
• To grasp and pick up with the beak: The bird pecked insects from the log. (verb-transitive)
• Informal To kiss briefly and casually. (verb-transitive)
• To make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And my next peck is going to be the partially-completed chapter formerly known as Ch. 9."
• "I still don’t know how much a peck is so I wash my veggies, but I don’t sterilize them before eating them – to get my share of clean, healthy dirt."
• "A lek is not the riotous, three-deep-at-the-bar party it could be for chickens because this congregation is governed by an extremely rigid social order known as the peck order, or more commonly, the pecking order."