Word Meanings - BUSHELAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

Related words: (words related to BUSHELAGE)

• PAYABLE
  1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.
• BUSHELMAN
  A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
• BUSHEL
  boistel, F. boisseau, LL. bustellus; dim. of bustia, buxida (OF. 1. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. Note: The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England, contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume
• BUSHELAGE
  A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.
• REPAYABLE
  Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.