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BUSHEL
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Irregular inflected forms: bushelled , bushelling
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("bushel" is a kind of...):
United States dry unit (a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System)
Meronyms (parts of "bushel"):
peck (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("bushel" is a kind of...):
British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)
Meronyms (parts of "bushel"):
congius; gallon; Imperial gallon (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters)
peck (a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons)
Holonyms ("bushel" is a part of...):
quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Example:
Repair my shoes please
Synonyms:
bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bushel" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bushel"):
fiddle; tinker (try to fix or mend)
fill (plug with a substance)
patch; piece (repair by adding pieces)
cobble (repair or mend)
point; repoint (repair the joints of bricks)
trouble-shoot; troubleshoot (solve problems)
patch; patch up (mend by putting a patch on)
resole; sole (put a new sole on)
revamp; vamp (provide (a shoe) with a new vamp)
heel; reheel (put a new heel on)
darn (repair by sewing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Discontented people might talk of corruption in the Commons, closeness in the Commons, and the necessity of reforming the Commons, said Mr. Spenlow solemnly, in conclusion; but when the price of wheat per bushel had been highest, the Commons had been busiest; and a man might lay his hand upon his heart, and say this to the whole world,—Touch the Commons, and down comes the country!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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