2007-03-21 08:48:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
A bushel is a unit of dry volume, usually subdivided into eight local gallons in the systems of Imperial units and U.S. customary units. It is used for volumes of dry commodities, not liquids, most often in agriculture. It is abbreviated as bsh. or bu.
1 U.S. bushel = 35.23907017 litres = 8 corn/dry gallons = 9.309177489 wine/liquid gallons
1 Imperial bushel = 36.36872 litres = 8 Imperial gallons
2007-03-21 08:51:27 · answer #1 · answered by drcrush69 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aaargh! A bushel is the most frustrating unit of measure ever. As mentioned below, it is 8 gallons of dry volume. It is also a unit of mass relative to the specific thing being measured (for example a bushel of wheat is 60 lbs, a bushel of barley is 48 lbs).
Now to confuse things further, it is also a count measure. A bushel of Malpeque oysters is 120 oysters. But wait! A bushel of Coromandel Oysters from New Zealand is 160 oysters, and they are about the same size.
So, bushel seems to fall into the same nebulous category of measurement as a few, several, clutch, grip, and boat load.
2007-03-21 16:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by l_sands 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 US bushel = 35.239072 liters
Corn is measured by the bushel. An average acre of corn yields 100 bushels.
2007-03-21 15:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by baileykay30 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bushel is a measure usually associated with the shellfish trade for counting small shellfish such as cockles and mu sells. A bushel consists of 14 shovels of such fish. The weights and measures people are trying to ban this practise but it is still used to this day in wholesale fish markets.
2007-03-22 10:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bushel
2007-03-21 15:53:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bushel basket, A bushel of crabs
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2007-03-21 15:50:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Abbr. bsh. or bu.
a. A unit of volume or capacity in the U.S. Customary System, used in dry measure and equal to 4 pecks, 2,150.42 cubic inches, or 35.24 liters.
b. A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in dry and liquid measure and equal to 2,219.36 cubic inches or 36.37 liters. See Table at measurement.
2. A container with the capacity of a bushel.
3. Informal A large amount; a great deal: We have bushels of time, so relax.
2007-03-23 21:55:28 · answer #7 · answered by Roxas of Organization 13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like a bushel of crabs? A large bag! 25lbs I think?
2007-03-21 16:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by bbmk333 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unit of measurement used in beer =)
*sings random song from "Guys and Dolls"*
*I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck"
hehe sorry x
2007-03-21 15:51:32 · answer #9 · answered by Jessi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its an old type dry measure 2pints =1quart, 8quarts=1peck, 4pecks=1bushel,. 36bushels=1chaldron
2007-03-21 15:57:13 · answer #10 · answered by rocky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋