Peck

Short description: Unit of volume with different values

For the action of touching with one's lips, see Kiss. For other uses, see Peck (disambiguation).

A half-peck apple bag

A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume,[1] equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, are still often sold by the peck in the U.S. (although it is obsolete in the UK, found only in the old nursery rhyme "Peter Piper" and in the Bible – e.g., Matthew 5:15 in some older translations).

## Contents

* 1 Scotland before 1824
* 2 Conversions
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Scotland before 1824

In Scotland, the peck was used as a dry measure until the introduction of imperial units as a result of the Weights and Measures Act of 1824. The peck was equal to about 9 litres (1.98 Imp gal) (in the case of certain crops, such as wheat, peas, beans and meal) and about 13 litres (2.86 Imp gal) (in the case of barley, oats and malt). A firlot was equal to 4 pecks.

## Conversions

| 1 imperial peck  | = | ​1⁄4 of an imperial bushel

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= | 2 imperial gallons
= | 8 imperial quarts
= | 16 imperial pints
= | 320 imperial fluid ounces
= | 9.09218 litres
≈ | 554.839 cubic inches
≈ | 2.06411 US dry gallons
|  | 1 US peck  | = | ​1⁄4 of a US bushel

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= | 2 US dry gallons
= | 8 US dry quarts
= | 16 US dry pints
= | 537.605 cubic inches
= | 8.80976754172 litres
≈ | 1.93788 imperial gallons
≈ | 310.060 imperial fluid ounces

## See also

* Bushel
* Obsolete Scottish units of measurement
* Winchester measure

## References

1. ↑ "peck". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2011. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/448327/peck. Retrieved 2011-09-29.

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Imperial units

* Acre
* Avoirdupois system
* Barrel
* British thermal unit
* Bushel
* Chain
* Chaldron
* Cubic foot
* Cubic inch
* Cubic mile
* Cubic yard
* Cup
* Degree
* Demiard
* Dram (unit)
* English Engineering units
* English units
* Exchequer Standards
* Fahrenheit
* Fluid ounce
* Foot
* Foot-candle
* Foot-pound
* Foot–pound–second system
* Foot-poundal
* FPS system of units
* Furlong
* Gallon
* Gill
* Grain
* Gunter's chain
* Hand (unit)
* Hogshead
* Hoppus
* Horsepower
* Horsepower-hour
* Hundred
* Hundredweight
* Inch
* Kenning
* Ksi
* League
* Mile
* Miles per hour
* Minim
* Ounce
* Peck
* Pint
* Pound (mass)
* Pound (force)
* Pound-foot
* Poundal
* Pounds per square inch
* Quart
* Rod
* Rood
* Ship load
* Slug
* Span
* Spinning count
* Square foot
* Square inch
* Square mile
* Square yard
* Stone
* Stuck
* Tablespoon
* Teaspoon
* Thousandth of an inch
* Tmcft
* Ton
* Long ton
* Trade gallon
* Twenty-foot equivalent unit
* Winchester measure
* Yard

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