bushel basket
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- noun
- /ˈbʌʃəl ˈbæskɪt/
- US
:
cesta de bushel
- She gathered a bushel basket full of fresh strawberries from the garden.
Examples
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He held a bushel basket full of feathers.
Fiction book (1999) -
On the floor were bushel baskets filled with pinto beans and potatoes, and sacks of flour and sugar.
Fiction book (1993) -
And she came into my room with a whole bushel basket full of tomatoes.
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The bushel basket of apples on the front seat exuded a sweet smell.
Fiction book (1997) -
Old Fred climbs out with a bushel basket of carrots.
Fiction book (1990) -
Mike waded into the tidal pool, filling a bushel basket with rockweed.
Fiction book (1999) -
All the students in the room would bring in something, anything from a can of hash to a loaf of homemade bread or a box of candy, and it would go into a bushel basket.
Academic text (2003) -
Then he reached for a bushel basket nearby, picked up a few kindling chips from the ground around the splitting block, and motioned me to take over.
Academic text (1990) -
After fishermen dump the dredges on deck, the mate picks out the blue crabs and places them dorsal side upward in bushel baskets.
Academic text (1990) -
We had gathered two bushel baskets of out-of-season oysters the day before, and I shucked them after enjoying the first few's salty freshness.
Fiction book (1996)
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'bushel basket' is a straightforward noun-noun composition: 'bushel' names a volume measure and 'basket' names a container, so the compound denotes a basket sized to hold a bushel. This literal, compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Bushel basket is a name from the simple idea of a basket made to hold one bushel of fruit or grain. Farmers would fill the basket to a mark to show one 'bushel', so the term now means a basket sized for measuring or carrying produce.