DANVILLE — Funeral service for Billie Sarah Partlow Laney, 83, will be Friday, at 3:00 PM at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Geoff Halbrooks officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing ...
A new urban-oriented funeral home has opened in Muskegon at 1751 Peck -- the historic location of the former Achterhoff Funeral Home. Fountain Funeral Home is owned by Gayle Griffin and is part of the ...
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.