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peck at

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Verb1.peck at - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"


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"Ah, she's a handsome craft, she is," the cook would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on, passing belief for wickedness.
He began t' peck at Jack's elbow, an' he ses: 'Say, where 's th' road t' th' river?
What winds conveyed this hurry to the grizzled mender of roads, already at work on the hill-top beyond the village, with his day's dinner (not much to carry) lying in a bundle that it was worth no crow's while to peck at, on a heap of stones?
 
 
 
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