bushel of apples
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- noun
- /ˈbʌʃəl əv ˈæpəlz/
- US
:
bushel de manzanas
- All she really wanted, though, was the loneliness of the barn on a mid-August morning when her sister and brother had already left home, and the orchard was untended except for the bushels of apples she picked alone.
Examples
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In addition, eighty weight of beef, eight bushels of rye, two bushels of malt, two barrels of cider, and three bushels of apples to keep: your grandfather was generous indeed.
Fiction book (1993) -
We plan to store a bushel of apples in the cellar for the winter.
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Before we left, I picked another bushel of apples.
Blog text (15) -
If the market will pay, say, ten dollars a bushel for fifteen bushels of apples, the gross sale is 150 dollars.
Blog text (22) -
When demand is elastic, this means, using my example again, that twenty bushels of apples will fetch the growers less gross revenue than fifteen bushels.
Blog text (22) -
If only nine bushels of apples come to market and the price rises such that the gross sale of the nine bushels exceeds 150 dollars, the demand for apples is said to be inelastic.
Blog text (22) -
Last week we picked a bushel of apples from the orchard for making pies.
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Each bushel of apples can weigh around 42 pounds when harvested.
Synonyms
An amount of things like apples or corn that fills about 35 litres
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally a unit-of-measure ('bushel') combined with the preposition 'of' and the noun 'apples', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it denotes a quantity of apples equal to one bushel. This measure-noun + of + noun pattern is a common and predictable construction across languages, making the meaning directly derivable.
Etymology
Bushel of apples comes from old farming when a bushel was a large wooden basket farmers used to fill with apples. If you picture a basket full of fruit, it helps you see why a bushel of apples means that particular 'amount' of apples today.