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
I pick in half-bushel baskets and place in large piles in the orchard.
From The Apple by Various
Cover the bed with fine rotted manure, to the depth of two inches, and one half-bushel salt to each square rod.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
Small quantities of bulbs may be stored in half-bushel baskets, from two to four inches deep, according to size, and hung up in the cellar.
From The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus by Matthew Crawford
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