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Definition of Pecking
1. peck [v] - See also: peck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecking
Literary usage of Pecking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"She had a hen-like, crumb- pecking, diligent appearance. Her smile was too innocent.
The pecking started instantly: "Cy says you had lots of fun at the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"He takes exception to the writer's opinion that the art of chipping stone,
technically considered, is more difficult than is pecking and grinding. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The ornament is becoming more and more enriched with carvings of birds pecking
at fruit, strapwork, geometric repeat forms ("dog-tooth," lozenge, ..."
4. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities: Part I. Introductory: The by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"Examples of implements reduced to approximate form by pecking are illustrated in
figures 190 and 191. The specimen shown in figure 187 is an incipient ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... if you was to see her pecking you'd think she was laying on pounds' weight in
a day instead of losing. —/. Greenwood: Tag, Rag, &• Co. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... were due to breakages of the borer or boring bar by the sudden fall which it
was necessary to give the too in pecking through a hard stratum. ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1896)
"approaching thinness; there are many pieces broken under the flaking hammer at
all stages of the work; there are also many specimens in which the pecking ..."
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