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Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..

Wash :: Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal..

Bushelman :: Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.

Water Measure :: Water measure () A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel..

Strike :: Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.

Duty :: Duty (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)..

Fanega :: Fanega (n.) A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land..

Homer :: Homer (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts..

Boll :: Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A large indefinite quantity.

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks..

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure..

Firlot :: Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

Modiolar :: Modiolar (a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.

Bushelage :: Bushelage (n.) A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

Peck :: Peck (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat..

Frickle :: Frickle (n.) A bushel basket.

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