All 4 Uses of
bushel
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- The news is, that after Miss Everdene got home she went out again to see all was safe, as she usually do, and coming in found Baily Pennyways creeping down the granary steps with half a a bushel of barley.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- "And there's two bushels of biffins for apple-pies," said Maryann.†
Chpt 22-24
- Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts.... But under your bushel, Joseph!†
Chpt 31-33
- under your bushel with 'ee!†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(bushel) a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
or:
a large amount -- as in "bushels of fun"