pecking

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

“The birds pecked at their food.”

To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

“to peck a hole in a tree”

To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

“He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.”

To type by searching for each key individually.

To type in general.

To kiss briefly.

To throw.

To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

The act by which something is pecked.

“the peckings of hungry chickens”

The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.

The sport of throwing pebbles at birds.