peck

nouns

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
peck
is a part of
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
bushel
is a type of (narrower)
a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
peck
is a part of
a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
bushel
is a type of (narrower)
a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System
United States dry unit

verbs

hit lightly with a picking motion
beak, peck, pick
is derived from
pecker
eat by pecking at, like a bird
peck, pick up
is derived from
pecker
kiss lightly
peck, smack
eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
peck, peck at, pick at
bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She nags her husband all day long"
hen-peck, nag, peck