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Bushel

noun

A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches.

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks.

verb

(past & past part. busheled, pres. part. busheling)

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please" Antonym: break.

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"Bushel" Quotes from Famous Books

... should be enough for us to feel and to appear that we are a reflection of the divine until we are divine. No one should place under a bushel or extinguish the divine light which illuminates us, but let it beam out, that it may brighten and warm all about it. Then one feels a living fire in his veins, and a higher consecration for the struggle ...

— Memories • Max Muller

... replied the peasant. "I can only set the bushel of apples against it; and I'll throw myself and my old woman into the bargain—and I fancy ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... of necessary elements in one's character, or the meeting of the right person with the right circumstances; but the fact is there, true as judgment. You can be comfortable and clean if you have the energy; and it is better to scrub your own kitchen-floor, or raise a bushel of potatoes, than to sit and whine about luck or respectability. Now and then a ready-made fortune drops down upon one, and I don't know but it often brings a curse: anyhow, what you work for, you ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

... appear, too, that the ore was then measured by the bushel, as it has been ever since, owing, of course, to its loose powdery nature, which seems, therefore, to have been the ...

— Iron Making in the Olden Times - as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean • H. G. Nicholls

... showed considerable ingenuity to fish up and renew, in the manner of Penelope's web. I never refused, as I say, for I was hired to do his bidding; but I took no pains to keep my penetration under a bushel, and would sometimes ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson

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