1) Actor Gregory 2) Actor in both Cape Fears 3) Ahab portrayer of 1956 4) Amount for Peter Piper 5) Amount of corn 6) Amount of trouble 7) Apple quantity 8) Atticus Finch portrayer 9) Barely eat dinner 10) Batch 11) Briefest of kisses 12) Captain ahab of film 13) Casual kiss 14) Chaste kiss 15) Cheek application
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1) Buss 2) Deluge 3) Dry measure 4) Hatful 5) Kiss 6) Lot 7) Mickle 8) Muckle 9) Multitude 10) Slew 11) Spate 12) Wad
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Pectoral Sandpipers.
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A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints (7.6 liters). Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although no longer frequently used, produce such as apples are still commonly sold by the peck. In Scotland, the peck was used as a dry measur...
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unit of dry measure equal to 8 quarts
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• (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. • (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree. • (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. • (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed ins...
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unit of capacity in the U.S. Customary and the British Imperial Systems of measurement. In the United States the peck is used only for dry measure ...
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1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree. ... 2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc, with repeated quick movements. ... 3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. 'This fellow pecks up wi...
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Peck intransitive verb 1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
Carew. 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. « [ The hen] went
pecking by his side.»
Dryden. To peck at ,
to attack with petty and repeate...
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Peck noun [ Perh. akin to pack ; or, orig., an indefinite quantity, and from peck , v. (below): confer also French picotin a peak.] 1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. 'A peck of provender.' Shak. 2...
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Peck transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pecked ; present participle & verbal noun Pecking .] [ See Pick , v. ] 1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks
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Ancient Measurement Terms: Volume. A dry measure of 2 gallons, or ¼ bushel. Also, a 'large' amount.
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The peck is a unit of capacity measurement equivalent to 2 gallons or 9.092 litres. A peck of flour was 14 lbs.
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Peck is slang for food.
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[n] - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons 2. [n] - a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches 3. [v] - hit lightly with a picking motion 4. [v] - eat by pecking at
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An old unit of volume.Conversions1 peck=0.25 bushel1 peck=8810 cm31 peck=0.00881 m31 peck=0.3111 ft31 peck=8.810 litres1 peck=537.605 in3ttle='Peck';xiunt='m3';yiunt='peck';mconv=8.81e-3;cconv=0.0; See also: Volume.
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beak verb hit lightly with a picking motion
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