"pecks" in the noun sense
1. 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
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"
2. peck
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
3. peck
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
"pecks" in the verb sense
1. peck, pick, beak
hit lightly with a picking motion
2. peck, pick up
eat by pecking at, like a bird
3. smack, peck
kiss lightly
4. pick at, peck at, peck
eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
5. nag, peck, hen-peck
bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She nags her husband all day long"
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