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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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peck
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Definition:a measure of dry goods, equal to a quarter of a bushel or 8 US quarts
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Uses:
not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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"Thar, yo!" said Quimbo, throwing down a coarse bag, which contained a peck of corn;
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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They're in an aweful peck of trouble.
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn.
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