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Basket

Basket (basket)
n.((?))
Bas"ket
[Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.]
  1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
    "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.
  2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
  3. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
    [Improperly so used.] Gwilt.
  4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
    [Eng.] Goldsmith.

    Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Basket-hilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Basket

Basket (basket)
v. t.
Bas"ket
  1. To put into a basket.
    [R.]












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