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Bushel

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.

verb

(past & past part. busheled, pres. part. busheling)

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please"

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"Bushel" Quotes from Famous Books

... hours, indeed, in the morning, when we studied German, French, book-keeping, and the like goodly matters; but the bulk of our day and the gist of the education centred in the exchange, where we were taught to gamble in produce and securities. Since not one of the participants possessed a bushel of wheat or a dollar's worth of stock, legitimate business was of course impossible from the beginning. It was cold-drawn gambling, without colour or disguise. Just that which is the impediment and destruction of all genuine commercial enterprise, just that ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... said that the structure of the human mouth is an argument against me as to the quality of our food, and that the growth of grapes is a proof that wine was ordained to be drank by men. It is perfectly well known that a man may eat a bushel of grapes without getting drunk; because the pure vegetable possesses no intoxicating power any more than the water which I am now drinking—and delicious water ...

— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... contained so large a sum of money as on that night, for salt was dear in the wilderness. It required eight hundred gallons of the weak salt water and many cords of fire-wood, and the work of many men for many days, to make a single bushel of the precious article. It was still scarce and hard to get thereabouts at five dollars a bushel, so that a large sum was needed to pay for an entire cargo. Drops of perspiration stood on the judge's forehead as he counted out the bank-notes, the gold, ...

— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks

... the woods for beech, hazel, and hickory nuts, and Robbie Baker came over on his horse with nigh a bushel of peeled chestnuts which his father brought him from Manchester way after the first frost. Then, there were potatoes to roast and a wild turkey which Nuck had shot two days before and hung in the smoke-house. The bird was not plucked, but after ...

— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster

... extent of the changes which are taking place in the world under the influence of these forces may be gathered from the fact that in 1870 the cost of transporting a bushel of grain in Europe was so great as to prohibit its sale beyond a radius of two hundred miles from a primary market. By 1883 the importation of grains from the virgin soil of the western prairies in the United States had ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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