bushel

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbʊʃəl/

Noun

bushel (plural bushels)

1. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:

     The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:

     And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?

3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

   a heap containing ten bushels of apples

4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

   Synonyms: box

Translations

• French: boisseau
• German: Scheffel
• Italian: moggio, staio
• Portuguese: alqueire
• Russian: бу́шель
• Spanish: fanega

Translations

• French: boisseau
• German: Scheffel
• Italian: staio
• Russian: бу́шель

Verb

bushel (bushels, present participle busheling; past and past participle busheled)

1. (US, tailoring, ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

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