bushel
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bushel
- /ˈbʊʃəl/
- /ˈbuʃəl/ US, dialectal
Rhymes with -ʊʃəl
Where it 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”).
noun bushels · 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). The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.
- 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?
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure. a heap containing ten bushels of apples
- A large indefinite quantity. The prime minister[…]has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle.
- The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
verb bushels · busheling · bushelling · busheled · bushelled
- To mend or repair clothes.
- To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
