bushel

A measure of dry capacity in the English-speaking world. The earliest documentary evidence of the bushel is from the 1300's. The word comes from an Old French word which is the ancestor of the modern French boisseau. Presumably the bushel was introduced to England through the Norman Conquest.

The following entries treat various bushels:

the imperial bushel, used in the UK and Commonwealth, 1826 to 1970
the Winchester bushel, used in the UK, abolished 1834
the U.S. bushel
the Avery bushel, used in Canada for grain
U.S. apple bushel
the Guernsey bushel
bushels of New York State and Connecticut
the bushel of Sierra Leone

Sources

BUSHEL; in some places is taken for two Strikes, or two Bushels, and sometimes for more; but properly in dry English measure, four Pecks makes a Bushel, as eight Bushels makes a Quarter.

Worlidge, 1704.