Bushel

Quick meaning: Bushel is a noun meaning A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

Meaning

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

More Meanings

1. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
2. (figurative, colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
3. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
4. (US, tailoring, ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
5. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
6. 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).

Example Sentences

a heap containing ten bushels of apples

The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

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

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.

Word Forms

• bushels
• busheling
• bushelling
• busheled
• bushelled

Synonyms for bushel

Depending on context, synonyms include box, mend, repair, restore, fix, doctor.

Antonyms for bushel

Common opposites include break, bust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mend, repair, fix, restore, doctor, peck.

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