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busheling

busheling is the present participle and gerund of bushel.

Meaning of bushel

Verb

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

See all 7 meanings of bushel

Noun

busheling (plural bushelings)

  1. (in plural) Scraps of steel left over from manufacturing processes.

Forms of busheling

pluralbushelings

Questions about busheling

What does busheling mean?
Busheling means scraps of steel left over from manufacturing processes.
What is busheling the present participle and gerund of?
Busheling is the present participle and gerund of bushel.
What part of speech is busheling?
Busheling is a noun.
What is the plural of busheling?
The plural of busheling is bushelings.

Words near busheling in the dictionary

  1. busheled
  2. busheler
  3. bushelers
  4. bushelful
  5. bushelfuls
  6. busheling
  7. bushelings
  8. Bushell
  9. bushelled
  10. busheller
  11. bushellers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: busheling (page history and authors); bushel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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