Obs. [Of obscure origin.] A measure containing two bushels and a half.
c. 1300. Batlle Abbey Custumals (Camden), 55. Cottarii maiores … debent triturare … unum werkhop, quod continet .ij. bussellos et dimidium, scilicet de frumento … De ordeo vero, ij. werkhops ejusdem mensuræ.
