bushel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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).

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

2. isim A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

   “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. isim A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

   “a heap containing ten bushels of apples”

4. isim A large indefinite quantity.

   “The prime minister[…]has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle.”

5. isim The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
6. fiil To mend or repair clothes.
7. fiil To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.