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bushelages

bushelages is the plural of bushelage.

Meaning of bushelage

Noun

bushelage (usually uncountable, plural bushelages)

  1. (UK, archaic, usually) A duty payable on goods by the bushel.
    • Vessels entered of the port of Portsmoutir pay the bushelage only .1835, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, The Corporations of England and Wales, page 133
  2. (usually) A quantity of bushels.
    • I think you will agree that the present wheat bushelage can not on the average year be greatly increased by just sowing more acres on the same old areas in the same old way or even in the same districts unless a great change is introduced .1917 July 20, Science, volume 46, number 1177, page 50

Questions about bushelages

What is bushelages the plural of?
Bushelages is the plural of bushelage.

Words near bushelages in the dictionary

  1. bushel basket
  2. bushel baskets
  3. bushel measure
  4. bushel measures
  5. bushelage
  6. bushelages
  7. busheled
  8. busheler
  9. bushelers
  10. bushelful
  11. bushelfuls

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