What is the name meaning of PECK. Phrases containing PECK
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Watchful. Famous bearer: American actor Gregory Peck, and Pope Gregory I who was also known as St...
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English
English : occupational name for someone who used a pick, from Middle English pi(c)k ‘pick’ (see Pick) + the agent suffix -er.English : occupational name for someone who caught or sold pike, from Middle English pike ‘pike’ + the agent suffix -er.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a pointed hill (see Pike 1), the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : occupational name for someone who used a pick or pickaxe, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bicken ‘to prick or stab’.Dutch : occupational name for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower, from Middle Dutch picker, pecker.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ with the noun suffix -er.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for someone who dealt in weights and measures, for example a grain factor, from Middle English pekke ‘peck’ (an old measure of dry goods equivalent to eight quarts or a quarter of a bushel).English : variant of Peak 1.Irish : variant of Peak 2.South German : variant of Beck.North German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch, from Middle Low German pek, Middle Dutch pec, pic.Dutch : from Middle Dutch pec, pick ‘desperate straits’, hence a nickname for a person in difficult circumstances or perhaps for someone with a gloomy disposition.
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English : variant spelling of Peak.Irish : variant of Peak 2.North German : metonymic occupational name for a spearmaker, from Middle Low German pēk ‘pike’. Compare Pike 4.Dutch : variant of Peck 4 and 5.
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v. i.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
v.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
n.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
n.
An instrument for pecking; a pick.
n.
A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
n.
An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip.
n.
The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
a.
Inclined to eat; hungry.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Peck
v.
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
a.
Speckled; spotted.
n.
A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
v.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
v. i.
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
n.
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
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A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
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of Peck
n.
A bushel; four pecks.
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One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
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An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.