bushel
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imperial bushel (2)
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bushel (plural bushels)
- (historical) 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).
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:
- 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.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]:
- 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
- (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
- Synonym: box
Derived terms
Translations
dry measure
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vessel of capacity of a bushel
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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.
Further reading
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
bushel
- Alternative form of busheli
Declension
| Inflection of bushel (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | bushel | bushelit | ||
| genitive | bushelin | bushelien busheleiden busheleitten | ||
| partitive | bushelia | busheleita busheleja | ||
| illative | busheliin | busheleihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | bushel | bushelit | ||
| accusative | nom. | bushel | bushelit | |
| gen. | bushelin | |||
| genitive | bushelin | bushelien busheleiden busheleitten | ||
| partitive | bushelia | busheleita busheleja | ||
| inessive | bushelissa | busheleissa | ||
| elative | bushelista | busheleista | ||
| illative | busheliin | busheleihin | ||
| adessive | bushelilla | busheleilla | ||
| ablative | bushelilta | busheleilta | ||
| allative | bushelille | busheleille | ||
| essive | bushelina | busheleina | ||
| translative | busheliksi | busheleiksi | ||
| abessive | bushelitta | busheleitta | ||
| instructive | — | bushelein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
bushel m (definite singular bushelen, indefinite plural bushel or bushels, definite plural bushelene)
- a bushel
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
bushel m (plural bushelen)
- a bushel
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bushel.
Noun
bushel m (plural busheli)
Declension
Declension of bushel
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) bushel | bushelul | (niște) busheli | bushelii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) bushel | bushelului | (unor) busheli | bushelilor |
| vocative | bushelule | bushelilor | ||