Bushel

1. n. The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
2. n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
3. n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
4. n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
5. n. A large indefinite quantity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.