bushelful

Whole basket's worth

A bushelful is the amount that fills a bushel—a unit of dry volume used for grain, fruit, and produce.

The word usually appears figuratively to mean a large quantity: I've got a bushelful of problems to deal with.

Plural: bushelfuls or bushelsful.

quantity

peck

Dry measure or quick kiss

bagful · bucketful · sackful · cartload · wagonload · armful · heaping · load · batch · lot

abundance

plenty

Sufficient quantity, and then some

heaping · brimming · laden · teeming · ample · plentiful · copious · bountiful · generous · cornucopia

harvest

apples

Round tree fruit

  • cornCereal grown on cobs
  • wheatCereal crop for flour
  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit

potatoes · tomatoes · peaches · produce · crop · yield · orchard · picking · gathering · reaping

Opposites
quantity/amount

bushelfulpinch

Squeeze with fingertips

smidgen · trace · dab · speck · drop

Family

bushelfuls

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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G