Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, ambitransitive)To mend or repair clothes.

  2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

More definitions
  • restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

Examples

7 sentences

  1. Tom bought a bushel of corn.

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  2. I bought three bushels of corn.

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  3. Hide not your light under a bushel.

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  4. Stop hiding your light under a bushel.

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  5. She just hides her light under a bushel.

    deSie stellt ihr Licht unter den Scheffel. — Zaghawa

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Origin

From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based o

From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bostyā (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosdʰ- (“branch”).

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Forms

bushels, busheling, busheled, busheled
Base formbushel · to bushel
3rd person singularbushels
Present participlebusheling
Past simplebusheled / bushelled
Past participlebusheled / bushelled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybushel
he, she, itbushels

Past simpleLesson

all personsbusheled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave busheled
he, she, ithas busheled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bushel

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bushA2bushybusilybusinessA1
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