bushel

bushel

English

imperial bushel (2)

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/

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• Hyphenation: bush‧el
• Rhymes: -ʊʃəl

Noun

bushel (plural bushels)

1. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:

     The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Mark iiij:[21]]:

     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?

3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

   a heap containing ten bushels of apples

4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

   Synonym: box

Derived terms

• bushel basket
• hide one's light under a bushel
• Winchester bushel

 

Translations

dry measure

Albanian: çereke (sq), karroqe (sq) m Armenian: բուշել (hy) (bušel) Catalan: faneca (ca) f Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv) Chinese: Mandarin: 蒲式耳 (zh) (púshì'ěr) Czech: bušl m Dutch: schepel (nl) m or n Finnish: busheli French: boisseau (fr) m Galician: fanega, celamín, ferrado m (roughly) German: Scheffel (de) m Hungarian: véka (hu) Irish: buiséal m Italian: moggio (it) m, staio (it) m Japanese: ブッシェル (bussheru) Latin: medimnum n, medimnus m Macedonian: шиник m (šinik) Maori: puhera Middle English: busshel Norman: bouessé m (Jersey), bouissé m (continental Normandy), buisset m (Guernsey) Portuguese: alqueire (pt) m Russian: бу́шель (ru) m (búšelʹ) Spanish: fanega (es), celemín (es) Swedish: skäppa (sv) Telugu: తూము (te) (tūmu) Welsh: bwsiel m

vessel of capacity of a bushel

Albanian: çerekore (sq) Armenian: բուշել (hy) (bušel) Chinese: Mandarin: 蒲式耳 (zh) (púshì'ěr) Dutch: buisstuk n, korenmaat (nl) c Finnish: vakka (fi) French: boisseau (fr) m German: Scheffel (de) m Hungarian: véka (hu) Italian: staio (it) m Japanese: ブッシェル (bussheru) Macedonian: шиник m (šinik) Maltese: siegħ m Middle English: busshel Russian: бу́шель (ru) m (búšelʹ) Turkish: kile (tr)

See also

• kenning (“half a bushel”)

Verb

bushel (third-person singular simple present bushels, present participle busheling or bushelling, simple past and past participle busheled or bushelled)

1. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

Further reading

• bushel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃel/, [ˈbuʃe̞l]

Noun

bushel

1. Alternative form of busheli

Declension

Inflection of bushel (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		bushel	bushelit
genitive		bushelin	bushelien busheleiden busheleitten
partitive		bushelia	busheleita busheleja
illative		busheliin	busheleihin
		singular	plural
nominative		bushel	bushelit
accusative	nom.	bushel	bushelit
	gen.	bushelin
genitive		bushelin	bushelien busheleiden busheleitten
partitive		bushelia	busheleita busheleja
inessive		bushelissa	busheleissa
elative		bushelista	busheleista
illative		busheliin	busheleihin
adessive		bushelilla	busheleilla
ablative		bushelilta	busheleilta
allative		bushelille	busheleille
essive		bushelina	busheleina
translative		busheliksi	busheleiksi
instructive		—	bushelein
abessive		bushelitta	busheleitta
comitative		—	busheleineen

Possessive forms of bushel (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	bushelini	bushelimme
2nd person	bushelisi	bushelinne
3rd person	bushelinsa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bushel m (definite singular bushelen, indefinite plural bushel or bushels, definite plural bushelene)

1. a bushel

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bushel m (plural bushelen)

1. a bushel

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bushel.

Noun

bushel m (plural busheli)

1. bushel

Declension

Declension of bushel

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bushel	bushelul	(niște) busheli	bushelii
genitive/dative	(unui) bushel	bushelului	(unor) busheli	bushelilor
vocative	bushelule		bushelilor