Dictionary

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 ;

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" ;