pecking
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pecking
- present participle and gerund of peck
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pecking (countable and uncountable, plural peckings)
- The act by which something is pecked.
- the peckings of hungry chickens
- The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.
- (obsolete) The game of throwing pebbles at birds.