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bushel
English
Etymology
From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bosty? (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bost? (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosd?- (“branch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b???l/
- Hyphenation: bush?el
- Rhymes: -???l
Noun
bushel (plural bushels)
- (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:
- 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, p. 207:
- A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
- 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, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
- Synonym: box
Derived terms
- hide one's light under a bushel
Translations
See also
- kenning (“half a bushel”)
Verb
bushel (third-person singular simple present bushels, present participle busheling or bushelling, simple past and past participle busheled or bushelled)
- (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
- To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
Finnish
Noun
bushel
- Alternative form of busheli
Declension
bushel From the web:
- = 35.239072 liters
- what bushel means
busher
English
Etymology
bush +? -er
Noun
busher (plural bushers)
- (US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
- August 1952, Baseball Digest Page 37
- He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.
- August 1952, Baseball Digest Page 37
Anagrams
- Buresh, rebush
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