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bushel

noun as in large quantity

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Duarte asks, referring to a bushel of fruits just brought in from the backyard orchard.

Sorghum requires less water than corn but yields about the same amount of ethanol per bushel.

The report projected soybean prices to be between $15 and $17 a bushel, up $2.

Pulling back his cloak, he shows off his giant phallus bearing forth a bushel of fruit.

He had five-year plans and seven-year plans by the bushel-full, and he never lost faith in the dialectic.

In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.

The reported duty of Watt's Herland engine was twenty-seven millions; and if the trial was with his ordinary bushel of 112 lbs.

The Greenwich high-pressure puffer-engine did fourteen millions of duty with a bushel of coals, 84 lbs.

The duty was seventeen millions and a half pounds raised one foot high for each bushel of coals.

A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bushel, such as: gobs, heap, loads, lot, million, and pile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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