PECK (3)

Peck, v. i. 1. 1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. Carew.
2. 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
went pecking by his side. Dryden. To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.