Definition of "bushel"

bushel

/ˈbʊʃəl/

noun
plural bushels
1. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
  Quotations
  The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.
  1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207
2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
  Quotations
  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?
  1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Mark iiij:]
3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
verb
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.