bsh

Noun

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).
   • The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207
2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
   • 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?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]
3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
   • a heap containing ten bushels of apples
4. (colloquial, figuratively) A large indefinite quantity.
   • 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.2022 May 31, Marina Hyde, “Pounds, ounces, pints! Johnson is offering a whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

   Synonyms:

   box

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