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- n a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
- n a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
- v restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- I nagged them to diversify their portfolio -- you know, buy a bushel basket of Krugerrands and bury them in the backyard, or maybe put a few million into a mutual fund.
- Said one surprised Kansas farmer: "I've got the finest 40-bushel straw and the poorest 10-bushel wheat you ever saw.
- He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.