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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons (36.4 L), or thirty-two quarts.
  • A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
  • A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
  • colloquial A large indefinite quantity.
  • The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box.

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