bushel – English noun declension

English noun forms of bushel

Noun: bushel
Singularbushel
Pluralbushels

Sample Sentences

  • The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:]
  • Forecasts are showing no sign of an end to the drought, with corn prices hitting a record high of $8.16 (£5.19) a bushel on Thursday, while soya beans hit a high of $17.17. [2012 July 19, Josephine Moulds, “Record cereal prices stoke fears of global food crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke? [1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]:]
  • a heap containing ten bushels of apples
  • The prime minister[…]has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle. [2022 May 31, Marina Hyde, “Pounds, ounces, pints! Johnson is offering a whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • The same film [Hamnet], in the coming weeks, will win awards by the bushel. [2026 January 31, Janan Ganesh, “The Hamnet wars”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:]

Nouns inflected like bushel

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”). See: Middle English Nouns 'busshel'.

Verbs referencing "bushel"

Russian Nouns бушель, Finnish Nouns busheli, Galician Nouns bucio, Romanian Nouns bușel.