BUSHEL (bushelled, bushelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: bushelled    , bushelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bushel mean? 

• BUSHEL (noun)
  The noun BUSHEL has 2 senses:

1. a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches

2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks

  Familiarity information: BUSHEL used as a noun is rare.

• BUSHEL (verb)
  The verb BUSHEL has 1 sense:

1. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

  Familiarity information: BUSHEL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSHEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("bushel" is a kind of...):

United States dry unit (a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Meronyms (parts of "bushel"):

peck (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("bushel" is a kind of...):

British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)

Meronyms (parts of "bushel"):

congius; gallon; Imperial gallon (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters)

peck (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons)

Holonyms ("bushel" is a part of...):

quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds))

• BUSHEL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on

Context example:

Repair my shoes please

Hypernyms (to "bushel" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bushel"):

fiddle; tinker (try to fix or mend)

fill (plug with a substance)

patch; piece (repair by adding pieces)

cobble (repair or mend)

point; repoint (repair the joints of bricks)

trouble-shoot; troubleshoot (solve problems)

patch; patch up (mend by putting a patch on)

resole; sole (put a new sole on)

revamp; vamp (provide (a shoe) with a new vamp)

heel; reheel (put a new heel on)

darn (repair by sewing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

If you already have children, spend more time with them, and possibly take them to a fun vacation at January’s end for bushels of giggles are guaranteed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I must say that I had my doubts about the strict justice of this, and was not even frightened out of them by the bushel of wheat which reconciles all anomalies.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A historical British unit of dry volume equal to 4 dry quarts, or 1/8 of a US bushel (Winchester bushel), or 268.8025 cubic inches, or 4404.88377086 milliliters.

(Gallon Historical, NCI Thesaurus)

For corn growers, the current assumption is that corn grain requires 1.2 pounds of nitrogen applied for every bushel produced.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

However, the very same evening William Larkins came over with a large basket of apples, the same sort of apples, a bushel at least, and I was very much obliged, and went down and spoke to William Larkins and said every thing, as you may suppose.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I have never, to this hour, got the better of that bushel of wheat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, the devoted postman on that beat delivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at intervals, I laboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without the salary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I don't know now, exactly, what it has to do with me, or what right it has to crush me, on an infinite variety of occasions; but whenever I see my old friend the bushel brought in by the head and shoulders (as he always is, I observe), I give up a subject for lost.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Among them I remember a double set of pigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)