bushel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈbuʃəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
    — The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.
  2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
    — And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?
  3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
    — a heap containing ten bushels of apples
  4. A large indefinite quantity. colloquial,figuratively
    — The prime minister[…]has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle.
  5. The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. UK
动词 v.
  1. To mend or repair clothes. US,ambitransitive
  2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

词形变化

bushels plural bushel dialectal,obsolete,plural bushels present,singular,third-person busheling US,participle,present bushelling UK,participle,present busheled US,participle,past busheled US,past bushelled UK,participle,past bushelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
bushelage bushel basket bushelful busheller bushelman bushel measure bushelwoman hide one's light under a bushel Winchester bushel
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”).
词源 2
From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”).
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