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bushelled

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bush⋅el

2  [boosh-uhl]
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–verb (used with object), -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British) -elled, el⋅ling.
to alter or repair (a garment).
Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; < G bosseln to patch < F bosseler to emboss; see boss 2

Related forms:
bush⋅el⋅er; especially British, bush⋅el⋅ler, noun
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bush·el 2   (bŏŏsh'əl)   
tr.v.   bush·eled or bush·elled, bush·el·ing or bush·el·ling, bush·els
To alter or mend (clothing).

[Probably from German bosseln, to do odd jobs, alteration (perhaps influenced by bosseln, to emboss) of basteln, to rig up, mend, probably from Bast, bast fiber (used to make rope), from Middle High German bast, from Old High German.]
bush'el·er, bush'el·ler n., bush'el·man (-mən) n.
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Word Origin & History

bushel 
c.1330, measure of capacity containing four pecks or eight gallons, from O.Fr. boissel, probably from boisse, a grain measure based on Gallo-Romance *bostia "handful," from Gaulish *bosta "palm of the hand" (cf. Ir. bass, Bret. boz "the hollow of the hand"). The exact measure varied from place to place and according to commodity, and since c.1374 it has been used loosely to mean "a large quantity or number."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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