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# bushel

noun (bushels)

«bushel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A bushel is an old measure of dry things such as grain, apples or potatoes, about eight gallons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/#m1)
2. A bushel is the basket or box used to hold that measure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/#m2)

### In the lessons

a measure of grain or money in old tales, as in «six bushels» or «a bushel of money»

### Examples

- The farmer sold six bushels of apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/#x1)
- Fill the bushel with wheat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/#x2)
- The reward was a bushel of gold coins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/#x3)

### Note

a bushel is a unit of measure, so six bushels means six full measures of the amount; a bushel is not a count of single things, and the number before it multiplies the measure.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bushel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bushel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bushel.html) on Mova free.