bushel

From Middle English busshel, 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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊʃəl/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃəl/^[1]

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• Hyphenation: bush‧el
• Rhymes: -ʊʃəl

bushel (plural bushels or (dialectal, obsolete) bushel)

1. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:

     The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

   • 2012 July 19, Josephine Moulds, “Record cereal prices stoke fears of global food crisis”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Forecasts are showing no sign of an end to the drought, with corn prices hitting a record high of $8.16 (£5.19) a bushel on Thursday, while soya beans hit a high of $17.17.

2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]:

     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

4. (figurative, colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
   • 2022 May 31, Marina Hyde, “Pounds, ounces, pints! Johnson is offering a whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The prime minister […] has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle.

   • 2026 January 31, Janan Ganesh, “The Hamnet wars”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:

     The same film [Hamnet], in the coming weeks, will win awards by the bushel.

5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

   Synonym: box

• kenning (“half a bushel”)

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

1. (US, tailoring, ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃel/, [ˈbuʃe̞l]
• Rhymes: -uʃel

bushel

1. alternative form of busheli

bushel m (definite singular bushelen, indefinite plural bushel or bushels, definite plural bushelene)

1. a bushel

3=bushel
4=bushelane
ip2=bushels

bushel m (plural bushelen)

1. a bushel

Unadapted borrowing from English bushel.

bushel m (plural busheli)

1. bushel