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Bushel
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- 1 A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel). historical
"The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn."
- 2 a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches wordnet
- 3 A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
"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?"
- 4 a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks wordnet
- 5 A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
"a heap containing ten bushels of apples"
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- 6 A large indefinite quantity. colloquial
- 7 The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. UK
- 1 To mend or repair clothes. US, ambitransitive
- 2 restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken wordnet
- 3 To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
Etymology
From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”).
From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”).
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