pecked

Verb

peck (third-person singular simple present pecks, present participle pecking, simple past and past participle pecked)

1. (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
   • The birds pecked at their food.
2. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
   • to peck a hole in a tree
3. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
4. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
   • This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
   • He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
6. To type by searching for each key individually.

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