bushel

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʊʃəl/ (US, dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈbuʃəl/ Hyphenation: bush‧el Rhymes: -ʊʃəl === Noun === bushel (plural bushels or (dialectal, obsolete) bushel) 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. (figurative, colloquial) A large indefinite quantity. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. Synonym: box ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== kenning (“half a 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) (US, tailoring, ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures. === References === === Further reading === bushel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Finnish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbuʃel/, [ˈbuʃe̞l] Rhymes: -uʃel === Noun === bushel alternative form of busheli ==== Declension ==== == Norwegian Bokmål == === Noun === bushel m (definite singular bushelen, indefinite plural bushel or bushels, definite plural bushelene) a bushel == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === bushel m (plural bushelen) a bushel == Romanian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bushel. === Noun === bushel m (plural busheli) bushel ==== Declension ====