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"english": "half a bushel",
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"ref": "1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207",
"text": "The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.",
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}
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"A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel)."
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"gallon",
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"(historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel)."
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"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "çereke"
},
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"sense": "dry measure",
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},
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"roman": "bušel",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "բուշել"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"feminine"
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"word": "faneca"
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "sutlilodv",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "ᏑᏟᎶᏛ"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "púshì'ěr",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "蒲式耳"
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{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bušl"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "schepel"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "busheli"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "boisseau"
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{
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "fanega"
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{
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "celamín"
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"code": "gl",
"english": "roughly",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ferrado"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "véka"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "buiséal"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moggio"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "staio"
},
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"roman": "bussheru",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "ブッシェル"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "medimnum"
},
{
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "medimnus"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "búšel",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "бу́шел"
},
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"sense": "dry measure",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "puhera"
},
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"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "busshel"
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"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "dry measure",
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"masculine"
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"word": "bouessé"
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"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alqueire"
},
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"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "búšelʹ",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бу́шель"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "fanega"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "celemín"
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"_dis1": "90 3 4 2 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "skäppa"
},
{
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "tūmu",
"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "తూము"
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"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "dry measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bwsiel"
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"A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure."
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"sense": "vessel of capacity of a bushel",
"word": "çerekore"
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"word": "բուշել"
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"roman": "púshì'ěr",
"sense": "vessel of capacity of a bushel",
"word": "蒲式耳"
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"word": "vakka"
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"tags": [
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"word": "boisseau"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "vessel of capacity of a bushel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Scheffel"
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"word": "véka"
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"sense": "vessel of capacity of a bushel",
"tags": [
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"word": "staio"
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"sense": "vessel of capacity of a bushel",
"word": "ブッシェル"
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"word": "siegħ"
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"word": "busshel"
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"tags": [
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"word": "бу́шель"
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"word": "kile"
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"text": "a heap containing ten bushels of apples",
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"A quantity that fills a bushel measure."
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"A large indefinite quantity."
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"(colloquial) A large indefinite quantity."
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"The iron lining in the nave of a wheel."
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"(UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel."
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"word": "box"
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"glosses": [
"To mend or repair clothes."
],
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[
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[
"mend",
"mend"
],
[
"repair",
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],
[
"clothes",
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"(US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes."
],
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},
{
"glosses": [
"To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures."
],
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"links": [
[
"pack",
"pack"
],
[
"grain",
"grain"
],
[
"hops",
"hops"
],
[
"measure",
"measure"
]
]
}
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},
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"sense": "dry measure",
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"sense": "dry measure",
"word": "ᏑᏟᎶᏛ"
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"code": "pt",
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