half-bushel
Americannoun
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In retirement, I pulled it out, mooched a half-bushel of organic soybeans from an Iowa farmer friend and launched into tofu-making again.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
“Whereas usually on the holidays, people would buy bushels or a half-bushel because they’d have a Thanksgiving party or they’d have a Christmas party . . . and having raw oysters would be part of their appetizers.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021
A huge stone, large as a half-bushel, struck the soft earth almost at my feet, rebounded, and rolled over into a patch of fennel ten feet distant.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
I pick my apples by hand into half-bushel baskets, and put them in a wagon, with hay in the bottom.
From The Apple by Various
I pick my apples by hand into half-bushel baskets, from ladders.
From The Apple by Various
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