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bushel.

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).

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbʊʃəl//ˈbuʃəl/US, dialectal

  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).

  2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

  3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

    a heap containing ten bushels of apples

  4. A large indefinite quantity.

    colloquial · figuratively

  5. The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

    UK
Where this word comes from

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”).

verb/ˈbʊʃəl//ˈbuʃəl/US, dialectal

  1. To mend or repair clothes.

    US · ambitransitive

  2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

Where this word comes from

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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