The meaning of PECK is a unit of capacity equal to ¼ bushel. How to use peck in a sentence.
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, [1] equivalent to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09218 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.80976754172 liters. Four pecks make a bushel.
a. A stroke or light blow with the beak or a pointed instrument. b. A mark or hole made by such a stroke. 2. Informal A light quick kiss. [Middle English pecken, probably variant of piken, to peck (perhaps influenced by Middle Low German pekken); see pick1.]
Chickens are pecked by their social superiors in order to maintain a rigid status quo within the flock. They suggest that perceptual mechanisms specific to each system develop gradually out of exploratory pecking on the basis of functional experience.
Peck /pɛk/ n Gregory. 1916–2003, US film actor; his films include Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Gunfighter (1950), The Big Country (1958), To Kill a Mockingbird (1963), The Omen (1976), and Other People's Money (1991)
peck (plural pecks) One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.
The Peck surname appeared 40,055 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 14 would have the surname Peck.
PECK definition: to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements. See examples of peck used in a sentence.