half-peck

People can buy a $50 orchard share for the season, including three pecks (about 30 pounds) of any apple he grows and a bonus half-peck of the Duchess of Oldenburg, a Russian apple that came to the U.S. in the 19th century.

Before the Mac, Vintage Apples Anne Marie Chaker 2010

At the other door he left a rather unpromising-looking lump of steak and a half-peck of potatoes, not of the first quality.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

When Aldrich came to any relief, I placed a pathetic remnant of the bushel, say a half-peck, in his hands, and it was with a shock that I learned later of his acting upon a wholly different conception of his duty to these heirlooms; he sent them all back, dead or alive, and so made an end of an intolerable burden.

Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship 1907

But Sarah-Mary, the eldest girl, had brought a basket containing a cranberry pie, a half-peck, more or less, of molasses cookies, and two tumblers of beach-plum jelly, and

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But night after night last winter I would climb the Hill to see the barn lighted, and in the shadowy stall two little human figures -- one squat on an upturned bucket milking, his milk-pail, too large to be held between his knees, lodged perilously under the cow upon a half-peck measure; the other little human figure quietly holding the cow's tail.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

Out on the hen-house roof are drying what, when the soap-box wagon was first built, promised barrels and barrels of nuts to be brought up with the pitcher of cider for our comforting in the long winter evenings, but what turns out, when the shucks are off, to be a poor, pitiful half-peck, daily depleted by the urgent necessity of finding out if they are dry enough yet.

Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

We split the rations up into slips about the size of a carpenter's lead pencil, and used them parsimoniously, never building a fire so big that it could not be covered with a half-peck measure.

Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

We split the rations up into slips about the size of a carpenter's lead pencil, and used them parsimoniously, never building a fire so big that it could not be covered with a half-peck measure.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

"Well, then, a half-peck," said she; "'pends a good deal on how many is living in a house."

What Might Have Been Expected Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Indeed, those who stare at the half-peck of corn a week, and love to count the lashes on the slave's back, are seldom the "stuff" out of which reformers and abolitionists are to be made.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1856