Bushel
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
A large indefinite quantity.
The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
To mend or repair, as men's garments; to repair garments.
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Bushel Quotations
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
David F. Houston
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Dean Stanley
Bushel Translations
bushel in French is boisseau
bushel in German is Scheffel
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