All 3 Uses
bushel
in
Seventeenth Summer
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- My father spent the morning in the garden, straightening out vegetable rows with a hoe and piling up a heap of pulled weeds in an empty bushel basket, stopping now and then to wipe the sweat from his forehead.†
Chpt July
- My mother was in the basement canning a bushel of early peaches and I went down casually to tell her it was Jack who had just called.†
Chpt July *
- Kitty brought my old heavy sweater from an upstairs closet and I carried up three clean bushel baskets from the basement.†
Chpt Augu
Definitions:
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(1)
(bushel) a large amount
or:
a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)