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Examples
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You could easily fit a half-bushel of medium crab apples on that "bike shelf"...
Hands Off: From "Do Me" to "Do It For Me" BikeSnobNYC 2010
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I couldn't help noticing on the streets that many Indian women have half-bushel hips and jiggly tummies.
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They've just bought a half-bushel of local crabs and some spots, a freshwater fish.
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A half-bushel as I previously mentioned above would be equivalent to 63 medium apples.
Hands Off: From "Do Me" to "Do It For Me" BikeSnobNYC 2010
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They've just bought a half-bushel of local crabs and some spots, a freshwater fish.
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Mountjoy, [37] etc.; but the wine was not good, so I came away, stayed at the Coffee-house till seven, then came home to my fire, the maidenhead of my second half-bushel, and am now in bed at eleven, as usual.
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I have been very busy writing this evening at home, and had a fire: I am spending my second half-bushel of coals; and now am in bed, and
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They sell to apartment dwellers half-bushel bean hampers filled with wood chips and each containing a single tomato plant to be grown on their balcony.
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Men trotted past, dwarfed by the stacks of half-bushel baskets balanced on their heads.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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Men trotted past, dwarfed by the stacks of half-bushel baskets balanced on their heads.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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