intransitive. To strike with the bill; to peck. Obsolete.

To strike or seize with the beak, to peck; to push the beak (or snout) into. absol. or intransitive: occasionally figurative.

intransitive. Of a bird: to strike at something or someone with the beak. Cf. sense 5a. Also in extended use.

intransitive. Of a bird: to peck. More generally: to penetrate into, to stab, pierce, or prod at. Now regional and rare.

intransitive. Of a bird: to stroke something with the beak, to bill; (also) to strike with the beak, to peck. Also transitive.

intransitive and transitive. To peck, continue pecking; (also) to gnaw.

Of a bird: To peck, peck at; to make (a hole) by pecking. Also, to root up with the beak (cf. stock, v.1 6). Also intransitive. To peck away (at).