different between bushel vs chaldron

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)

1. (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.

2. 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?

3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. (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)

1. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

Finnish

Noun

bushel

1. Alternative form of busheli

Declension

English

Etymology

French chaudron. Doublet of cauldron.

Noun

chaldron (plural chaldrons)

1. (archaic) An old English dry measure, containing four quarters. At London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 208.

     The celdra or chaldron is employed in some places, especially at Finchale or Wearmouth. It appears to contain four quarters or thereabouts, and is perhaps the original measure of which the quarter is a fraction.

   • ????, De Colange.

     In the United States the chaldron is ordinarily 2,940 lbs, but at New York it is 2,500 lbs.

Anagrams

• chlordan, chondral