bushel
Plural: bushels
Noun
- a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
- 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).
- A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- A large indefinite quantity.
- The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
Verb
Verb Forms: busheled, busheling, bushels, bushelled, bushelling
- To repair or mend clothes, often with tailoring.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- To mend or repair clothes.
- To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
Examples
- a heap containing ten bushels of apples
- I had to BUSHEL my hand of tiles, trying to mend a poor selection into a playable word.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
bushel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbushel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bushel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary