BUSHEL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Bushel

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈʊʃəl/ Listen

Bushel

noun

A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches.

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks.

verb

(past & past part. busheled, pres. part. busheling)

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please" Antonym: break.

See more definitions of Bushel...

See images of 'Bushel'

Antonyms of 'Bushel'

Etymology of 'Bushel'

Related search:

bushel basket

Share |

"Bushel" Quotes from Famous Books

... to know that half the words about it were mistranslations? How were they to study when they were hard at work from week's end to week's end? It seems to me downright wicked of scholars and learned men to keep their light hidden away under a bushel, and then pretend that they fear the 'people' are ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... the world. A city that is set on a hill can not be hid. (15)Nor do they light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but on the lamp-stand; and it shines to all that are in the house. (16)Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is ...

— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various

... pamphlets which crowded his circling arms. He seemed to have emptied the post-office. There had not been any Pete Leddy; there had been no display of six-shooters. He had gone in after the mail. Here he was ready to deliver it by the bushel, while he waited for orders. She had to laugh at his predicament as he lowered his chin to steady a book on the ...

— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... could speak, she went on: "Never mind the piano; that can wait. What I've got on my mind just now isn't piano; it's potatoes. Do you know, I saw some the other day at Rasbach's, splendid potatoes—these are some of them—and fifteen cents a bushel cheaper than those dried-up old things Brother Barnum keeps, and so I bought two bushels. And Sister Barnum met me on the street this morning, and threw it in my face that the Discipline commands us to trade with each other. Is there ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... the passage or repeal of tariff laws, then, affect the minds of the opposing parties. We have spoken of the peculiar condition of the South in this respect. In the West, for many years, the farmers often received no more than twenty-five cents, and rarely over forty cents, per bushel for their wheat, after conveying it, on horseback, or in wagons, not unfrequently, a distance of fifty miles, to find a market. Other products were proportionally low in price; and such was the difficulty in obtaining money, that ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

More quotes...