Large units of measurement for grain and other dry goods, or a lot of something.
From Old French 'boisseau', derived from Latin 'buxida' meaning box. A bushel was originally the capacity of a wooden box used for measuring grain, and the word stuck even as measurements standardized.
A bushel of wheat weighs completely different from a bushel of feathers because it measures volume, not weight—which is why farmers developed all these different measurement standards before we had modern scales!
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