bushel
IPA: bˈʊʃʌɫ
noun
- (historical) 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).
- A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
verb
- (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
- To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
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Examples of "bushel" in Sentences
- This is the same as the US bushel.
- It's the modern day candle and bushel.
- They don't hide their lamp under a bushel.
- Ambassadors have been withdrawn by the bushel.
- Count Dooku red lightsabres by the gross bushel.
- Bushel inventory does not count towards this capacity.
- At that time, a florin could purchase a bushel of wheat.
- The bushel was originally a measure of capacity for grain.
- The 'bushel' was originally a measure of capacity for grain.
- The flag of Burma features a bushel of rice superimposed on a cogwheel.
- After hoistin 'bushel baskets of tomatoes onto a wagon, this feels light to me.
- Nearby March futures rose 20 cents a bushel, which is the exchange-imposed daily allowable trading limit, settling at $4.95.
- Traders said $6.90 a bushel was a key price level, and once it was breached, a large number of pre-placed sell orders were triggered.
- The best way to keep tares out of a bushel is to fill it with wheat. the flesh -- the natural man, out of which flow the evils specified (Ga
- These were now there, in all their sail variety, in that half-barrel, or call it bushel, which loomed a hogshead in my view, when my chief left it to file.
- Latitude does not altogether govern the climate in Canada, when you find wheat of good quality, 62 lb. to the bushel, is grown at Fort Simpson in latitude 62.
- Even though soybean production is increasing, the USDA said it expects the average price of the 2008 soybean crop to hit $12.25 a bushel, give or take 75 cents a bushel, which is up 21% from the 2007 soybean crop's average price of $10.15 a bushel.
- Then again, if you were a devotee of the margins of Pee Chee folders of my own youth, you would have seen all of the notations on unit conversions that used to be there and would vaguely remember that a bushel was a dry volume measurement for dry goods that didn't translate well into units like feet or inches.