Meaning of bushel measure | Babel Free

Definitions

A container that contains exactly one bushel (four pecks), used as a measuring device for commodities sold by the bushel.

Examples

“By the Act of Queen Anne, a bushel measure⟳ should be chained to a post⟳ in the centre of every fruit market, and the clerk of the market bound to measure⟳ by it upon payment of 1 d.”

“For instance, you would find⟳ it impossible to get⟳ one-fourth of a bushel of parsnips into a peck measure⟳. The bushel measure⟳ has, by custom, ceased to be a standard measurement.”

“This calculation is based on a cone of the same height heaped upon the same bushel measure⟳ described above, but the cone is considered in this case to be heaped upon the area of the open⟳ top of the measure⟳ instead of the top including the sides, the diameter thus being 18 1⁄2 instead of 19 1⁄2 inches.”

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