[see -FUL.] As much as fills a bushel; fig. a large quantity.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., IV. ix. 474. Worth … a buyschel ful of gold.
1600–12. J. M., in Shaks. C. Praise, 98. Lovers will tell a bushell-full of Lyes!
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, v. Nature has given him a mouthful of common sense, and the priest has added a bushelful of learning.
1861. Temple-bar Mag., I. 188. A bushelful of gold pieces would scarcely have sufficed.
