What (who) is Peck - definition
UNIT OF VOLUME WITH DIFFERENT VALUES
Peck (unit); US peck
peck
v. (d; intr.) to peck at (to peck at one's food)
Peck
·noun A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
II. Peck ·vi To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
III. Peck ·vi To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
IV. Peck ·v To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
V. Peck ·noun A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
VI. Peck ·noun The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
VII. Peck ·v To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
- often with up.
IX. 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
(pecks, pecking, pecked)
1.
If a bird pecks at something or pecks something, it moves its beak forward quickly and bites at it.
It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find...
Chickens pecked in the dust...
It pecked his leg...
They turn on their own kind and peck each other to death...
These birds peck off all the red flowers.
VERB: V at n, V prep/adv, V n, V n prep, V n with adv
2.
If you peck someone on the cheek, you give them a quick, light kiss.
Elizabeth walked up to him and pecked him on the cheek...
She pecked his cheek.
VERB: V n on n, V n
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Peck is also a noun.
He gave me a little peck on the cheek.
N-COUNT: usu a N
Wikipedia
Peck
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, are still often sold by the peck in the U.S. (although it is obsolete in the UK, found only in the old nursery rhyme "Peter Piper" and in the Bible – e.g., Matthew 5:15 in some older translations).
Pronunciation examples for Peck
1. and another reunion, or peck-to-peck.
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2. Charles Peck.
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3. ERIN LEIGH PECK: Right.
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4. ERIN LEIGH PECK: Bing.
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5. hunt and peck.
Pretty Much Everything _ Aaron Draplin _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Peck
1. Advertisement This is not the first time Peck, 50, the daughter of actor Gregory Peck, has addressed efforts to silence women.
2. "We‘re basically supporting a ground campaign," Peck said.
3. A goodbye peck on the cheek on a subway platform.
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5. Family friends included Roger Moore, Gregory Peck and Bette Davis.