busshel
Middle English
Alternative forms
- boschell, bosshell, buschel, buschell, bushell, busschel, busshell, bussel, bussell, buyschel, buysshel
Etymology
From Old French boissel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuʃɛl/, /ˈbui̯ʃɛl/, /ˈbusɛl/
Noun
busshel (plural busshels)
- bushel (volume measure)
- bushel (vessel holding a bushel)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 5:15, page 1v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- ne me tendiþ not a lanterne / ⁊ puttiþ it vndur a buſſhel [translating mōdius] · but on a candilſtike· that it ȝyue liȝt to alle þat ben in þe hous
- You don't light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, so it gives light to everybody who's at home.
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Descendants
- English: bushel
- Scots: bushel
References
- “busshel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.