Main Difference
The main difference between Peck and Bushel is that the Peck is a unit of volume and Bushel is a unit of volume used in the United Kingdom.
Peck
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints (9.09 (UK) or 8.81 (US) liters). Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, is still often sold by the peck. Despite being referenced in the well-known Peter Piper tongue twister, pickled peppers are so rarely sold by the peck that any association between pickled peppers and the peck unit of measurement is considered humorous in nature.
Bushel
A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel was equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks or 8 dry gallons and was used mostly for agricultural products such as wheat. In modern usage, the volume is nominal, with bushels denoting a mass defined differently for each commodity.
The name “bushel” is also used to translate similar units in other measurement systems.
Peck (verb)
To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
“The birds pecked at their food.”
Peck (verb)
To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
“to peck a hole in a tree”
Peck (verb)
To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
Peck (verb)
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
Peck (verb)
To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
“He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.”
Peck (verb)
To type by searching for each key individually.
Peck (verb)
To type in general.
Peck (verb)
To kiss briefly.
Peck (verb)
To throw.
Peck (verb)
To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of teh flat of the foot.
Peck (noun)
An act of striking with a beak.
Peck (noun)
A small kiss.
Peck (noun)
One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
“They picked a peck of wheat.”
Peck (noun)
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
“She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.”
Bushel (noun)
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
Bushel (noun)
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
Bushel (noun)
A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
“a heap containing ten bushels of apples”
Bushel (noun)
A large indefinite quantity.
Bushel (noun)
The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
Bushel (verb)
To mend or repair clothes.