[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.", "to make (a hole, puncture, etc.) by such strokes; pierce .", "to take (food) bit by bit, with or as with the beak."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a quick stroke, as in pecking.", "a hole or mark made by or as by pecking.", "a quick, almost impersonal kiss:a peck on the cheek.", "(in timber) incipient decay from fungi, occurring in isolated spots.", "pecks.Alsopeck?ings.Slang. food ; grub ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to nibble indifferently or unenthusiastically at (food).to nag or carp at:Stop pecking at me, I'm doing the best I can.", "to nibble indifferently or unenthusiastically at (food).", "to nag or carp at:Stop pecking at me, I'm doing the best I can."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a dry measure of 8 quarts; the fourth part of a bushel, equal to 537.6 cubic inches (8.81 liters).", "a container for measuring this quantity. : pk, pk.", "a considerable quantity:a peck of trouble."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Annie Smith,1850–1935, U.S. mountain climber.", "Gregory,1916–2003, U.S. actor."]}]