Usually means: Repeatedly striking with a beak.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pecking: Merriam-Webster
  2. pecking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pecking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pecking, pecking: Wordnik
  5. pecking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pecking: Wiktionary
  7. Pecking, pecking: Dictionary.com
  8. pecking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pecking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pecking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Pecking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pecking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. pecking: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pecking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecking: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecking: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Pecking: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecking: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See peck as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pecking)

noun:  The act by which something is pecked.
noun:  The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.
noun:  (obsolete) The game of throwing pebbles at birds.

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