(pek) v.t.
1. To strike with the beak, as a bird does, or with something pointed.
2. To make by striking thus: to peck a hole in a wall.
3. To pick up, as food, with the beak.
—v.i.
4. To make strokes with the beak or with something pointed.
—noun
1. A quick, sharp blow, as with a beak or something pointed.
2. A mark, dent, or hole made by such a blow. [Var. of PICK]
—peck′er noun

(pek) noun
1. A measure of capacity: the fourth of a bushel, 8 quarts, or 8.8 liters. See DRY MEASURE.
2. A vessel for measuring a peck.
3. Slang A great quantity. [<OF pek, a measure of oats for horses]