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half-bushel
[ haf-boosh-uhl, hahf- ]
noun
- a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
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Level the seed in the spoon with a knife-blade, like measuring grain in a half-bushel.
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In these places the little animals put away sometimes a peck or a half bushel of beans.
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He was popularly described as having a head "as big as a half bushel," surmounted by a great shock of hair.
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As the fire was about four feet in diameter, the usual width, there was plenty of room for our half bushel of potatoes.
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The half bushel measures wheat precisely the same, whether that wheat is worth three dollars or one dollar.
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