Another word for bushel | Synonyms for bushel

Another word for bushel

noun

(Informal)

An indeterminately great amount or number:

jillion, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion. (Informal) gob¹ (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck², scad (often used in plural), slew, wad, zillion. See big

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When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.
And that of the oats bushel at 2s.
Dry measures of bushel, half-bushel, peck, gallon, quart, pint, half-pint.
The general average yields of the corn crops are not fairly comparable one with the other, because they are given by measure and not by weight, whereas the weight per bushel varies considerably.
From 1858 to 1862 the rate varied between 42.37 and 34 80 cents per bushel for the whole trip of roundly 1000 m., the average rate in the quinquennium being 38.43.

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