peck
verb (used with object)
to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
has pecked
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present perfectof peck (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Aberdeen City Council has pecked around the issue, but, on Monday, seems likely to approve an ordinance allowing city residents to keep and raise chickens, maybe up to a dozen.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
“Rowdy,” I said, eying Gandy, “I think this is a good time to get even with that old goose for all the times he has pecked us, don’t you?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Despatch from Pomeranian farming district to effect that a Cochin-China hen has pecked at representation of German Eagle in picture-book.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Already, it has pecked through the biggest slice of mine!”
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
