Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbʊʃəl/
bushel (plural bushels)
- (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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:
- 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?
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- a heap containing ten bushels of apples
- (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
- Synonyms: box
- French: boisseau
- German: Scheffel
- Italian: moggio, staio
- Portuguese: alqueire
- Russian: бу́шель
- Spanish: fanega
bushel (bushels, present participle busheling; past and past participle busheled)
- (US, tailoring, ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
- To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
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