eng: peck

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Meaning
means	(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" passel, peck, mess, deal, flock, batch, raft, hatful, good deal, mountain, pot, wad, spate, pile, tidy sum, sight, great deal, mass, muckle, quite a little, mickle, plenty, mint, lot, stack, slew, heap
means	(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons peck
means	(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches peck
means	(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion peck, beak, pick
means	(verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird peck, pick up
means	(verb) kiss lightly peck, smack
means	(verb) eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" pick at, peck at, peck
means	(verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long" hen-peck, nag, peck