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Peck   /pɛk/   Listen
Peck

noun
1.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
2.
A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.
3.
A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.
verb
(past & past part. pecked; pres. part. pecking)
1.
Hit lightly with a picking motion.  Synonyms: beak, pick.
2.
Eat by pecking at, like a bird.  Synonym: pick up.
3.
Kiss lightly.  Synonym: smack.
4.
Eat like a bird.  Synonyms: peck at, pick at.
5.
Bother persistently with trivial complaints.  Synonyms: hen-peck, nag.



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"Peck" Quotes from Famous Books



... his head on one side, as if to receive the compliment in a most befitting manner, and catching sight of a hand upon the saddle, it rapidly dipped down its head and made a vicious peck ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday

... their business; but the turf roof of it had fallen entirely in; so that the hut was of no use to me, and gave me less shelter than my rocks. What was more important, the shell-fish on which I lived grew there in great plenty; when the tide was out I could gather a peck at a time: and this was doubtless a convenience. But the other reason went deeper. I had become in no way used to the horrid solitude of the isle, but still looked round me on all sides (like a man that was hunted), between fear ...
— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson

... urgent, for there stood a sinner, Whose fate hung on chance—a chance for his dinner; A chance for all mortals, with truth I assert, Who eat where his chance was, to counteract fate, "To eat during life each a peck of pure dirt" By eating at once the whole peck from one plate. For true when I think of the places we eat at, Or rather the places by hunger when driven We rush in and swallow our bread and our meat at, ...
— Nothing to Eat • Horatio Alger [supposed]

... had intimated, such a peck of oats was almost too much for Dennis, and he felt that he was in danger of becoming ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... of this shell-fish, the common thin-shelled clam and the quahaug. The first is the most abundant. It is sold by the peck or bushel in the shell, or by the quart when shelled. Clams are in season all the year, but in summer a black substance is found in the body, which must be pressed from it before using. The shell of the quahaug is ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa


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