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
The stores were put on board, and Seth Pond came back from researches which had been rewarded by a half-bushel basket full of clams.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Jewett, Sarah Orne
If money bore the same relation to trade as a yard-stick or half-bushel, you would have the same money when you got through trading as you had when you begun.
From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Ingersoll, Robert Green
With a capacity of a half-bushel, it weighed only five pounds.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
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