Crossword clues for pecked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Pecking.] [See Pick, v.]
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
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To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
--Addison.This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
--Shak. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: peck)
Usage examples of "pecked".
They pecked and got sick as before, and later avoided a similar green bead, although they would go on pecking at a red or chrome one.
If later, as in the conditioned taste aversion experiment, the chick becomes mildly sick, it can only arrive at the sensible, if erroneous, conclusion that it was the bead it had pecked that made it sick if there is still some representation of the experience of pecking the bead somewhere in its brain.
Some of my chicks, which would normally peck at a bright bead, have pecked it once and found it tasted bitter.
However many times they experienced the pairing of bead-peck with food-shock, though, the chicks would not avoid the bead - if anything they pecked at it more vigorously and somewhat aggressively.
Little David strutted back and forth, pecked twice at my lifeless cock, and then crowed his victory.
Those that pecked it before when it was covered in water approach it enthusiastically and peck again.
Most of those which pecked it when it tasted bitter an hour back now eye the bead distinctly cautiously.
Something has changed in the behaviour of the group of birds that have pecked the bitter bead.
I arranged the experiment so that every time the chick pecked a dry, tasteless bead, it felt a mild electric shock to its feet.
I offered them a green bead, dipped in water, and, as I had expected, they pecked it eagerly.
The only possible explanation could be that the chicks, when they pecked a novel bead for the first time, formed some sort of a 'representation' of the green bead, a model, in their brains, which they could preserve for at least half an hour without it being paired with anything obviously either aversive or pleasant, but simply neutral.
This bursting activity was massively - up to fourfold - higher in the methylanthranilate-traned animals than in the controls which had pecked the water bead.
He pecked savagely at Little David's head, and hit the top of the downed cock's dubbed head hard with his bill open.
The cock marched toward me boldly, eating as he came, and pecked the remaining grain of corn out of my outstretched palm.
The Black pecked every time, although he no longer tried to stand on his stumps.