Definition of Pecke

1. to pitch [v PECKED, PECKING, PECKES] - See also: pitch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecke

peccatiphobia
peccavi
peccavis
pech
pechan
pechans
peched
peching
pechoño
pechs
pecilocin
peck
peck at
peck out
pecke (current term)
pecked
peckers
peckerwood
peckerwood sawmill
peckerwoods
peckes
peckier
peckiest
pecking
pecking order
peckingly

Literary usage of Pecke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1883)
"Johan' Holwill Wid. one Bushell & half <t half a pecke - 2 2 And. Holwill the younger one Bushell & half a pecke 10 Great ..."

2. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1866)
"In expensis Johannis de Cumbe dum fecit trituram iij bsls. et j pecke per it In expensis ... v buselli et di et j pecke. Inde mixta cum alio biado ad ..."

3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"pecke does not appear to have written any other production; and his original epigrams show that he had not gained much point or spirit from the poets he ..."

4. The Cheshire Sheaf edited by Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1896)
"Gwynn, 2 in fam :, 1 pecke meale. Ellyn Malpas, 3 in fam:, 14 m. corne. ... James Pale, 2 in fam:, 1 pecke corne. Widow Greene, 6 in fam:, 4 m. meale, ..."

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