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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Popinjay :: Popinjay (n.) The green woodpecker.
Dab :: Dab (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..
Picine :: Picine (a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes..
Speckling :: Speckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckl.
Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..
Woodnewer :: Woodnewer (n.) A woodpecker.
Woodchuck :: Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker..
Woodpeck :: Woodpeck (n.) A woodpecker.
Witwall :: Witwall (n.) The greater spotted woodpecker.
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..
Specked :: Specked (imp. & p. p.) of Spec.
Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..
Dot :: Dot (v. i.) To make dots or specks.
Bicched :: Bicched (a.) Pecked; pitted; notched.
Whetile :: Whetile (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle..
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Nickle :: Nickle (n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker..
Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
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