How to pronounce peck

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What peck means

noun

Most people know peck in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A dry measure equal to a quarter of a bushel

In a sentence: At the orchard stand, we bought a peck of apples, enough for three pies.

Where it comes from: This peck probably comes from an old word, pekke, and no one is sure where that came from. The beak-tap peck is a separate word, related to pick.

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