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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