Peck

A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.

Famous quotes containing the word peck:

“Big chickens do not peck at small grains.”
—Chinese proverb.

“A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)