peck

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A unit of dry volume or capacity in the US Customary System equal to 8 quarts or approximately 537.6 cubic inches.
• noun A unit of dry volume or capacity in the British Imperial System equal to 8 quarts or approximately 554.8 cubic inches.
• noun A container holding or measuring a peck.
• noun Informal A large quantity; a lot.
• intransitive verb To strike with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• intransitive verb To make (a hole, for example) by striking repeatedly with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• intransitive verb To grasp and pick up with the beak.
• intransitive verb Informal To kiss briefly and casually.
• intransitive verb To make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• intransitive verb To eat in small sparing bits; nibble.
• intransitive verb To make repeated criticisms; carp.
• noun A stroke or light blow with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• noun A mark or hole made by such a stroke.
• noun Informal A light quick kiss.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To fall or pitch forward: said in particular of a horse when he touches the ground with his toe first in a stride, instead of stepping on the whole foot.
• To strike with the beak, as a bird; hence, to strike lightly with some sharp-pointed instrument.
• To pick up or take with the beak.
• To make or effect by striking with the beak or any pointed instrument: as, to peck a hole in a tree.
• To make strokes or light blows with the beak or some pointed instrument.
• To attack repeatedly with petty criticism; carp at.
• noun A stroke with the beak, or with some sharp-pointed tool.
• noun Meat victuals; food.
• noun A quantity; a great deal.
• noun Specifically The fourth part of a bushel, a dry measure of 8 quarts for grain, pulse, etc.
• noun A peck-measure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into.
• transitive verb Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
• transitive verb To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
• transitive verb To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• noun The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• noun A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• intransitive verb To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
• intransitive verb To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
• intransitive verb to eat slowly and in small portions, with litle interest
• noun A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• noun A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• noun A short kiss.
• verb To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• verb To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• verb To type by searching for each key individually.
• verb rare To type in general.
• verb To kiss.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
• verb eat like a bird
• noun a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
• verb eat by pecking at, like a bird
• noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent