Definition of peck

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Peck (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat..

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Pigpecker :: Pigpecker (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..
Tapper :: Tapper (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer..
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks..
Dot :: Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark..
Bicched :: Bicched (a.) Pecked; pitted; notched.
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Dab :: Dab (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
Speck :: Speck (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture..
Spaky :: Spaky (a.) Specky.
Speckledness :: Speckledness (n.) The quality of being speckled.
Henpecking :: Henpecking (p. pr. & vb.) of Henpec.
Bespeckled :: Bespeckled (imp. & p. p.) of Bespeckl.
Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..
Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..
Bespeckling :: Bespeckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bespeckl.
Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..
Spriteful :: Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle..
Kopeck :: Kopeck (n.) A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents..
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