half-peck

They could eat cabbage and potatoes, rye bread and cheese, by the half peck, and drink buttermilk by the quart.

Pick over and wash in several waters or until no sand is left in bottom of bowl, one-half peck spinach.

Put in three or four quarts boiling water, together with pepper and salt, eighteen okras, one-half peck cut up tomatoes.

There was only a scant half peck of the roots but that was better than nothing.

This estimate is based on the low yield of a half-peck of fruit to each vine at 25 cents per basket.