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Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels..

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

Strike :: Strike (n.) A bushel; four pecks.

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)..

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

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

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.

Hectolitre :: Hectolitre (n.) A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels..

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..

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

Ton :: Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Chetvert :: Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels..

Coomb :: Coomb (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter..

Half :: Half (a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view..

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