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# bushel

«bushel» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old measure of dry things such as grain, apples or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bushels)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bushel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.