Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

* Shakespeare

When gold and silver becks me to come on.

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, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}

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, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.

The birds pecked at their food.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Chapter 2

The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.

To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

to peck a hole in a tree

To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up .

(Addison)

* Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.

To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.

To type by searching for each key individually.

(rare) To type in general.

To kiss briefly.

* 1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) , Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-35340-3, p. 2

At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.

Verb

(en verb)

(regional) To throw.

To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of teh flat of the foot.

* 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 97:

Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.