peck
4
9.4
A unit for dry goods equal to eight quarts or about nine liters
- noun
- /pɛk/
- Archaic
:
peck (unidad de medida)
- He filled the basket with a peck of potatoes for the harvest festival.
- a peck of peppers
- a peck of corn
- peck of pickled peppers
Examples
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Their table had cost him a bucket of shrimp, their stove a peck of corn.
Fiction book (1994) -
She bought a peck of apples from the farmer's market.
-
One has a bushel And one has a peck.
-
Besides, they had about a peck a meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion.
Academic text (1991) -
The crew drew in the net tightly and, using scoops holding about a peck, transferred the menhaden to the vessel hold (Goode, 1880).
Academic text (1990) -
The recipe calls for a peck of corn to make the soup.
How Big
bushel
30
6.6
30
6.6
peck
4
9.4
- Archaic
4
9.4
gallon
416
1.0
416
1.0
Imperial capacity unit
- UK
quart
68
1.5
68
1.5
pint
6
1.0
- UK
6
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Peck The noun for the unit of dry measure comes from an old small basket used to carry fruit or grain, and the name of the basket became the name of the amount that fits in it, so a peck is the quantity that fills that basket.