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Pecks was mid−th century slang for food.
Gregory Pecks is Scouse rhyming slang for trousers (kecks)
Neck. Wind you Gregory in
Cheque
Noun. 1. Neck.* 2. Cheque.* * Both uses, rhyming slang on Gregory Peck, the actor.
Specs (spectacles). Where's me gregs
 Begger
Cheque. I never 'ad any bread on me, so I 'ad to pay by Gregory. I'm going down to the iron to sausage a gregory.
Pectoral muscles.
Neck
Gregory Peck. I never 'ad any bread on me, so I 'ad to pay by Gregory.
Gregory Peck is Cockney rhyming slang for a cheque. Gregory Peck is Cockney rhyming slang for neck.
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n.
Alt. of Grego
n.
A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.
a.
The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
n.
A bushel; four pecks.
n.
One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
n.
An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
n.
A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
v. t.
To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
n.
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
v.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
n.
A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.
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A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
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A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
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Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
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An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.
n.
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
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