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bushelful

bushelful

6.4
An amount of things like apples or corn that fills about 35 litres
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌʃəlˌfʊl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : bushel
  • At the festival, she bought a bushelful of strawberries to make preserves for the winter.

Examples

  • The farmer proudly displayed a bushelful of freshly picked corn at the local market.

  • Those guys were being paid off by the bushelful.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • While Cherisse went to the barricades for Zo, everyone else in the club just "happened" to have something intensely vital to do right outside Gary's closed office door, and those who couldn't come up with an excuse managed to drop contact lenses and earrings by the bushelful right there.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • After harvesting the apples, we ended up with a bushelful of fruit that filled the entire back of the truck.

Synonyms

bushel
vsbushelful
30 6.6

A measure for dry goods like grain or fruit

refers to the actual quantity that fills the unit, not the unit name

How Much

barrel
164 1.0
crate
189 1.7
bushelful
  • Specialized
6.4
peck
  • Archaic
4 9.4

Surface Forms

bushelful singular
bushelfuls plural

Morphology

bushelful = bushel (transparent) = bushel + ful

Formed by the noun 'bushel' plus the productive suffix '-ful' indicating the amount that fills a bushel; meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word bushelful comes from bushel, which began as a small box used to measure grain and comes from a word meaning 'box', like the English box. So a bushelful is literally a 'box full', meaning the amount that fills that measure.