bushelage

plural bushelages

1. UKarchaicuncountableusuallyA duty payable on goods by the bushel.

   Vessels entered of the port of Portsmoutir pay the bushelage only .

   1835, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, The Corporations of England and Wales, page 133

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   Bushelage consisted of a bushel taken from each cargo of dry goods, chiefly coal, salt, malt, barley, and wheat; though half a bushel of "peasen" appears to have sufficed.

   1877, Plymouth athenaeum, Annual report and transactions - Volume 6, page 316

   Bushelage dues on landing at the village of Flushing, payable to Lord Clifton

   1969, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers, page 152

2. uncountableusuallyA quantity of bushels.

   But there would need to be, if the present supply is reduced, there would need to be some maximum bushelage.

   1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Price-support Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 2018

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   I think you will agree that the present wheat bushelage can not on the average year be greatly increased by just sowing more acres on the same old areas in the same old way or even in the same districts unless a great change is introduced .

   1917 July 20, Science, volume 46, number 1177, page 50

   But largely as a result of the unilluminating statements of the Board in exaggerating bushelage and ignoring quality, March corn fell from the high of August 10, $ 1.21½, on the Chicago Board of Trade, to .35⅞ on December 30.

   1928, Farm Life and Agricultural Epitomist - Volume 47, Issue 7, page 11

   The favorable results for the year were to a large degree related to the company's ability to replace lost income through added bushelage.

   1962, Illinois Agricultural Association, Progress Report, page 92