Peck

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.

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Famous quotes containing the word peck:

    “A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

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

    “Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
    March with its peck of dust,
    Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
    Nor even May, whose flowers
    One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)