These are the meanings of the letters PLECK when you unscramble them.
- Kelp (n.)
Any large blackish seaweed.
- Kelp (n.)
The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.
- Peck (n.)
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- Peck (n.)
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
- Peck (n.)
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
- Peck (v.)
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
- Peck (v.)
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
- Peck (v.)
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
- Peck (v.)
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
- Peck (v. i.)
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
- Peck (v. i.)
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.