Definitions for pecks

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pecks peck

Spelling: [pek]

IPA: /pɛk/

Pecks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in pecks (cekps).

Definitions for pecks

noun

1. a dry measure of 8 quarts; the fourth part of a bushel, equal to 537.6 cubic inches (8.81 liters).
2. a container for measuring this quantity. Abbreviation: pk, pk.
3. a considerable quantity:
4. a quick stroke, as in pecking.
5. a hole or mark made by or as by pecking.
6. a quick, almost impersonal kiss:
7. (in timber) incipient decay from fungi, occurring in isolated spots.
8. pecks, Also, peckings. Slang. food.
9. Annie Smith, 1850–1935, U.S. mountain climber.
10. Gregory, 1916–2003, U.S. actor.

Verb phrases

1. peck at, to nibble indifferently or unenthusiastically at (food). to nag or carp at:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
2. to make (a hole, puncture, etc.) by such strokes; pierce.
3. to take (food) bit by bit, with or as with the beak.

verb (used without object)

1. to make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument.

Origin of pecks

1250-1300; Middle English pek Old French

Examples for pecks

From Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh we learn that the price in 1701 was half-a-crown a peck.

peck keeps his dignity even as he remembers friends and family back home, now dead.

This ended the operations of the firm of peck & Masters, in 1864.

It mistook me for a honeysuckle, and gave me a peck to make sure.

Digital birds that peck you to pieces, a disabled graffiti master who works by brainwaves.

We see peck's character change and at the same time we see the awesome size of the forces he's up against.

I have found about Chillicothe a number of the varieties given by Dr. peck.

The intimacy of the contrasting figures in the painting represented to peck the love he had for his longtime wife, Veronique peck.

When little Shona Ritchie plucked up the courage to ask for a peck from Prince William, the future king was happy to oblige.

Repeat this till you have put in eight quarts or one peck of tomatas.