bushel basket

noun, a basket that holds a bushel of contents | ‘bushel’: (in Canada and other Commonwealth countries) a measure of capacity for grain, fruit, etc., equal to 8 imperial gallons or 36.4 litres (COD)

“Everybody called him ‘The Giant,’ but he had hands on as big as a bushel basket, and they hung right down to his knees.”

“He used to talk about going out there and diving down and then taking a bushel basket and filling it with cannel coal and coming up to his boat and hauling it up and selling it off for 25 cents for a bushel of cannel coal.”

“The apples stayed out on the veranda until frost, and then I think they brought them in there too but in the bushel baskets.”