bushel

plural bushels

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).

   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, page 207

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   Forecasts are showing no sign of an end to the drought, with corn prices hitting a record high of $8.16 (£5.19) a bushel on Thursday, while soya beans hit a high of $17.17.

   2012 July 19, Josephine Moulds, “Record cereal prices stoke fears of global food crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. 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?

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]

3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

   a heap containing ten bushels of apples

4. colloquialfigurativelyA large indefinite quantity.

   The same film [Hamnet], in the coming weeks, will win awards by the bushel.

   2026 January 31, Janan Ganesh, “The Hamnet wars”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20

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   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.

   2022 May 31, Marina Hyde, “Pounds, ounces, pints! Johnson is offering a whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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

   Synonyms: box

present singular third person bushels · US participle present busheling · UK participle present bushelling · US participle past busheled · US past busheled · UK participle past bushelled · UK past bushelled

1. USambitransitivetailoringTo mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.