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A peck is equal to 8 quarts or 16 pints of dry volume in the Imperial and USA system. A peck is a quarter of a bushel.

In Scotland the peck was equal to between about 8 litres and 13 litres, depending on the crop, until the eighteen-twenties when Imperial units were introduced. A peck was a quarter of a firlot or four forpets.

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