A measure of capacity used for corn, fruit, etc., containing four pecks or eight gallons.
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bushel (17) bushelc1300 A measure of capacity used for corn, fruit, etc., containing four pecks or eight gallons. London bushela1475 Used attributively in various special collocations. perhaps the same as the Winchester bushel (according to Fitzherbert it was smaller than that… town bushel1618 a local measure of capacity taken as a bushel; a container used to measure this; cf. bushel, n.1 1 2a. full1657 Scottish. A firlot or bushel. Obsolete. coal bushel1670 strake1706 A bushel: = strike, n.1 4, stroke, n.1 23. Subcategories:— two-thirds of a bushel (1) — two and a half bushels (2) — three bushels (1) — two to four bushels (3) — four bushels (4) |
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