bushel
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈbʌʃəl/
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- And she came into my room with a whole bushel basket full of tomatoes.
- bushels of oysters
- million bushels
- about 300 bushels
And I've heard Scott Peterson cannot keep up with the bushels of love letters.
- And I've heard Scott Peterson cannot keep up with the bushels of love letters.
- He brings up Aristotle's proverbial bushel of salt.
- Joey, they put a fucking bushel of mint in this drink.
- Because you don't get to buy one green onion, you have to buy a bushel of green onions.
- Overlapping limbs are those with some hint of disease, those grown haywire or deranged, twisting for the light, and those from which last year grew maybe half a bushel of fruit.
- So you have to use three times the amount of nitrogen to get the same bushel of corn in in present day.
- And when it's hauled out and why it's hauled out, that's it's not like that three bushels of wheat are symbols.
- They make better stores of value and they they have utility value If it's a if it's a ship or a house or or a plane or a bushel of corn right.
Examples
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From 1930 through 1980, approximately 2 million bushels were harvested annually in the state.
Academic text (1992) -
One company chartered a barge that carried 12,000 bushels of shells and loaded it every day.
Academic text (1996) -
This is the price of of a bushel of wheat.
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Because you don't get to buy one green onion, you have to buy a bushel of green onions.
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Land that formerly produced 60 bushels per acre now yields less than 20.
Academic text (1994) -
You can pick pecans for 40 cents a bushel at Zelma Landing.
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Each vessel was allowed to harvest 2,000 bushels of oysters for the season.
Academic text (1996) -
Senhor Varanda gave two bushels of corn and a letter of recommendation for Dr. Cunha.
Fiction book (1995) -
Grayden loads three hissing bushel baskets into a wooden wheelbarrow and lumbers wearily home.
Academic text (1994) -
Farmers often sell their produce by the bushel, making it easier to measure large quantities.
Synonyms
An amount of things like apples or corn that fills about 35 litres
Idioms
To keep your talents or good work hidden instead of showing them to others
Compounds
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3.2
A basket for carrying and measuring fruit or vegetables that holds about 35 litres
A large amount of peaches equal to about fifty pounds used to measure fruit
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Bushel comes from an old word for a 'small box' used to hold grain and is related to the English word box. So a bushel became the name for the amount of dry goods that would fit in that box.