Beck vs. Peck

Becknoun

A stream or small river.

Peckverb

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.

‘The birds pecked at their food.’;

Becknoun

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.

‘To be at the beck and call of someone.’;

Peckverb

(transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

‘to peck a hole in a tree’;

Becknoun

A vat.

Peckverb

To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

Beckverb

(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

Peckverb

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

Becknoun

See Beak.

Peckverb

To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

‘He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.’;

Becknoun

A small brook.

‘The brooks, the becks, the rills.’;

Peckverb

To type by searching for each key individually.

Becknoun

A vat. See Back.

Peckverb

(rare) To type in general.

Becknoun

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

‘They have troops of soldiers at their beck.’;

Peckverb

To kiss briefly.

Beckverb

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

Peckverb

(regional) To throw.

Beckverb

To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

‘When gold and silver becks me to come on.’;

Peckverb

To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of teh flat of the foot.

Becknoun

a beckoning gesture

Pecknoun

An act of striking with a beak.

Beck

Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres.

Pecknoun

A small kiss.

Pecknoun

One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

‘They picked a peck of wheat.’;

Pecknoun

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

‘She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.’;

Pecknoun

The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

Pecknoun

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

Pecknoun

A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

Peckverb

To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

Peckverb

Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.

Peckverb

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; - often with up.

‘This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.’;

Peckverb

To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

Peckverb

To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

Peckverb

To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.

‘[The hen] went pecking by his side.’;

Pecknoun

(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’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

Pecknoun

a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

Pecknoun

a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

Peckverb

hit lightly with a picking motion

Peckverb

eat by pecking at, like a bird

Peckverb

kiss lightly

Peckverb

eat like a bird;

‘The anorexic girl just picks at her food’;

Peckverb

bother persistently with trivial complaints;

‘She nags her husband all day long’;

Peck

A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters.