noun. Same as place-brick.

noun. plural Pieces pecked or knocked off.

noun. The sport of throwing pebbles at birds to bring them down.

noun. They crossed a road soon afterwards, and there close to them lay a heap of charming pebbles. “Look here,” shouted East, “here's luck! I've been longing for some good honest pecking this half-hour. Let's fill the bags, and have no more of this foozling bird's-nesting.”

verb. Present participle of peck.

"I’m probably not unique in making this mistake, but in modern American middle-class experience one hears the term pecking order and one reflexively locates oneself right smack, well, in the middle."

checking  decking  trekking  wrecking  

'bush  SSRI  cackling  monotypic  ovarium  

peck