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:

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

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

    “And there is nothing in the eye,
    Shut shutter of the mineral man
    Who takes the fatherless dark to bed,
    The acid sky to the brain-pan;
    And calls the crows to peck his head.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)