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Webster 1913 Edition

Bushel

Bush′el

(bụsh′ĕl)
,
Noun.
[OE.
buschel
,
boischel
, OF.
boissel
,
bussel
,
boistel
, F.
boisseau
, LL.
bustellus
; dim. of
bustia
,
buxida
(OF.
boiste
), fr.
pyxida
, acc. of L.
pyxis
box, Gr.
πυξίς
. Cf.
Box
.]
1.
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
☞ The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England, contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume of a cylinder 18½ inches in internal diameter and eight inches in depth. The standard bushel measures, prepared by the United States Government and distributed to the States, hold each 77.6274 pounds of distilled water, at 39.8° Fahr. and 30 inches atmospheric pressure, being the equivalent of the Winchester bushel. The imperial bushel now in use in England is larger than the Winchester bushel, containing 2218.2 cubic inches, or 80 pounds of water at 62° Fahr.
2.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
Is a candle brought to be put under a
bushel
, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick?
Mark iv. 21.
3.
A quantity that fills a bushel measure;
as, a heap containing ten
bushels
of apples
.
☞ In the United States a large number of articles, bought and sold by the bushel, are measured by weighing, the number of pounds that make a bushel being determined by State law or by local custom. For some articles, as apples, potatoes, etc., heaped measure is required in measuring a bushel.
4.
A large indefinite quantity.
[Colloq.]
The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with
bushels
of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces.
Dryden.
5.
The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
[Eng.]
In the United States it is called a box. See 4th
Bush
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bushel

BUSH'EL

,
Noun.
A dry measure, containing eight gallons, or four pecks. The standard English bushel,by Stat.12 . Henry VII., contains eight gallons of wheat, each gallon eight pounds of wheat, troy weight, the pound, twelve ounces troy, the ounce, twenty sterlings, and the sterling,thirty two grains of wheat growing in the middle of the ear. The contents are 2145.6 solid inches, equivalent to 1131 ounces and 14 pennyweights troy.
The English bushel is used also in the U. States.
Bushel signifies both the quantity or capacity, and the vessel which will contain the quantity.
1.
In popular language, a large quantity indefinitely.
2.
The circle of iron in the nave of a wheel; in America, called a box. [See Bush.]

Definition 2024

bushel

bushel

English

Noun

bushel ‎(plural bushels)

  1. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons (36.4 L), or thirty-two quarts.
    The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England, contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume of a cylinder 181/2 inches in internal diameter and eight inches in depth. The standard bushel measures, prepared by the United States Government and distributed to the States, hold each 77.6274 pounds of distilled water, at 39.8° Fahr. and 30 inches atmospheric pressure, being the equivalent of the Winchester bushel. The imperial bushel now in use in England is larger than the Winchester bushel, containing 2218.2 cubic inches, or 80 pounds of water at 62° Fahr.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:
      The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.
  2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
      And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?
  3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure
    a heap containing ten bushels of apples
    In the United States a large number of articles, bought and sold by the bushel, are measured by weighing, the number of pounds that make a bushel being determined by State law or by local custom. For some articles, as apples, potatoes, etc., heaped measure is required in measuring a bushel.
  4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
  5. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bushel ‎(third-person singular simple present bushels, present participle busheling or bushelling, simple past and past participle busheled or bushelled)

  1. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

Finnish

Noun

bushel

  1. Alternative form of busheli

Declension

Inflection of bushel (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative bushel bushelit
genitive bushelin bushelien
busheleiden
busheleitten
partitive bushelia busheleita
busheleja
illative busheliin busheleihin
singular plural
nominative bushel bushelit
accusative nom. bushel bushelit
gen. bushelin
genitive bushelin bushelien
busheleiden
busheleitten
partitive bushelia busheleita
busheleja
inessive bushelissa busheleissa
elative bushelista busheleista
illative busheliin busheleihin
adessive bushelilla busheleilla
ablative bushelilta busheleilta
allative bushelille busheleille
essive bushelina busheleina
translative busheliksi busheleiksi
instructive — bushelein
abessive bushelitta busheleitta
comitative — busheleineen

Etymology

From Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā‎ ‎(“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā ‎(“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz ‎(“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- ‎(“branch”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊʃəl/
  • Rhymes: -ʊʃəl

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