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 my apples by hand into half-bushel baskets, and put them in a wagon, with hay in the bottom.
From The Apple by Various
The "boxes" which they manufactured were measures of the old-fashioned kind like the half-bushel and peck measures made of wood fifty years ago.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey
I pick in canvas lined half-bushel baskets, and sort into firsts, seconds, and culls, carefully, by hand.
From The Apple by Various
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