(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.
Hamper
Definition:
(n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.
(v. t.) To put in a hamper.
(v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
(n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(n.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(2) "Such attacks will not hamper Afghanistan's relations with other nations."
(3) Testing of potential therapies for spinal cord injury has been significantly hampered by the unavailability of a standardized, reproducible animal model with predictable outcome at a given force of injury (dose-response).
(4) The isolation of plant enzymes is frequently hampered by the presence of phenolic compounds, pigments and mucilages.
(5) The therapeutic potential of interferon gamma (IFN gamma) in a number of disease states is still being explored, but progress is hampered by the lack of a suitable measure of in vivo biological activity.
(6) Primary care services had been hampered in controlling yaws by difficulties with transport, isolation, community resistance and the lack of skilled personel to diagnose yaws and arrange prophylactic treatment.
(7) However, sections of the Act may hamper doctors in the performance of their duties.
(8) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
(9) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(10) His lawyers argued their ability to organise witnesses on Terry's behalf was seriously hampered by Chelsea's demanding season.
(11) Our knowledge of the functional activity of the epidermal Langerhans cell has been severely hampered by the lack of an easy method of purification of these cells that is both efficient and reproducible.
(12) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(13) Large scale clinical applicability of this approach has been hampered, so far, by technical problems such as separation of massive islet concentrations and immune rejection.
(14) A large body of research implicates Bacteroides gingivalis in the etiology of adult periodontitis, however, the application of this information to clinical diagnosis and treatment has been hampered by the need for a simple, rapid, and reliable means of detecting this microorganism.
(15) Interpretation is hampered by the short observation period, small number of deaths from certain causes, and poor exposure definition.
(16) Characterization of their role in health and disease has been hampered by inadequate methods to separate interstitial from residual alveolar macrophages (AMs) in preparations of individual mononuclear cells from lung tissue.
(17) Many address deep-rooted social issues, but they are hampered by short-term political horizons and funding arrangements.
(18) The source said Nigeria's intelligence agencies are willing to act to take down the Boko Haram base, but their efforts have been hampered by the government.
(19) A decade ago, she was hampered by post-natal depression after six weeks' maternity leave from RBS.
(20) Understanding the mechanisms by which these oncogenes affect various cell types has been hampered by a paucity of experimental systems that reproduce the range of biological effects associated with them.