The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
the coal peck contains 41 gallons, 4.362 old Winchester measure - 8 pecks make 1 bole, and 24 boles 1 chaldron.
Volume. A dry measure of 2 gallons, or ΒΌ bushel. Also, a "large" amount.
two gallons of wheat make a peck, four pecks a bushel. As a dry measure, it was 14 pounds.
a measure of capacity used fordry goods; the fourth part of a bushel, or two gallons
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
hit lightly with a picking motion
eat by pecking at, like a bird
eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
a quarter of a bushel, so it's just the quantity of pepper he picked