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BASKETS
Noun
baskets
plural of basket
Verb
baskets
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of basket
Source: Wiktionary
BASKET
Bas"ket, n. Etym: [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. (Arch.)
Definition: 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, Baskethilted, 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.
Bas"ket, v. t.
Definition: To put into a basket. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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