half-bushel

Level the seed in the spoon with a knife-blade, like measuring grain in a half-bushel.

In these places the little animals put away sometimes a peck or a half bushel of beans.

He was popularly described as having a head "as big as a half bushel," surmounted by a great shock of hair.

As the fire was about four feet in diameter, the usual width, there was plenty of room for our half bushel of potatoes.

The half bushel measures wheat precisely the same, whether that wheat is worth three dollars or one dollar.