Careful Words

peck (n.)

peck (v.)

peck (adj.)

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act i. Sc. 1.

  It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.

  This peck of troubles.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liii.