(n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
(n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
(n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
(n.) A large indefinite quantity.
(n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US department of agriculture said corn output would only reach 10.8bn bushels for 2012-13, while yields were likely to be 123.4 bushels per acre – the lowest return for 17 years.
(2) "I'd be tickled to death if it would make 50 bushels (1.5 tonnes), if we don't have rain," he said.
(3) Bushell went one better than the silver he secured in Beijing and equalled the achievement of Hannah Cockroft in the T34 wheelchair category on Friday night.
(4) BT Sport set out to begin a new era of live mass broadcast for major sporting events, combining TV and digital media to make this the most widely available and social broadcast of a Uefa Champions League and Europa League final ever,” said Delia Bushell, managing director of BT Sport & TV.
(5) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(6) Bushell, who cruised to victory in 14.74 seconds, was born without seven vertebrae in his back and was spotted by the Paralympian Deborah Brennan when playing dodgeball at school.
(7) Bushell's Big Brother bombshell Today's stop press entry on Garry Bushell's website : "Big Brother bosses will today diffuse the racism row engulfing the show by sending in three new celebrities: Mel Gibson, Michael 'Kramer' Richards and Big Ron Atkinson."
(8) and Petter recently hired Delia Bushell, a former Sky executive, as managing director of BT TV and BT Sport to help plot its strategy.
(9) Glance around the current entertainment landscape and light entertainment is once again predicated on talent shows and ballroom dancing, just like Gary Bushell always said it should be.
(10) I nearly cried coming across the line," said Bushell, who watched his friend David Weir win his 5,000m race in the Paralympic village on Sunday night.
(11) Sokolove-Bushell's Q statistic was found to have a chi square distribution at the small degrees of freedom involved in estrous rhythmicity in rodents (i.e., rhythmicity with periods of 2-7 days).
(12) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
(13) And Britain's track and field Paralympians, who underperformed in Beijing with just two gold medals, took their total to five in the Olympic Stadium with victory for Mickey Bushell in the T53 100m.
(14) The latest reduction in estimates propelled corn futures on the Chicago commodity exchange to $8.30 a bushel and accelerated a 60% increase in prices over the last two months.
(15) You can’t hide that light under a bushel,” he said.
(16) Mark Bushell, assistant curator of invertebrates at Bristol zoo, said he was delighted to have received the eggs: “These stick insects are on the verge of extinction and we are thrilled to have been invited to take part in this vital effort to help conserve the species and bolster the captive population.
(17) Unlike the German and Swedish Olympic Committees the BOA has not so far spoken out on the human rights issue as it relates to the Baku games.The Games are being broadcast live in the UK by BT Sport, but its managing director Delia Bushell defended its decision not to make reference to the clampdown on freedom of speech.
(18) Britain's fifth athletics gold medal of Paralympics 2012 saw Bushell set a Paralympic record of 14.75sec, more than 0.3sec ahead of China's Zhao Yufei and Yu Shiran, the defending champion.
(19) High-moisture corn was treated with a propionic acid preservative and stored in a 40,000 bushel steel bin.
(20) But while those two families continue to dominate the frame, let's hope at least hope that they not hide the better half of their talent under a bushel.
Chaldron
Definition:
(n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.