Pecks
[peks]
Examples
- A chick, for example, pecks accurately at a bit of food in a few hours after hatching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That's worth millions of money and pecks of praise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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