basket (basket)

[ nected with basket.] 1. A ve el made of twigs, rushes, thin strips of wood, or other flexible materials, interwoven in a great variety of forms, and used for many purposes. Rude baskets .. Woven of the flexile willow. Dyer , The Fleece, ii. 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a bas ket will hold: as, a basket of fish. Do ye not remember the five loaves of the five you sand, and how many baskets ye took up? Mat. xvi. 9. IMG:content-1731.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1732.png:[blocks in formation] basket. See Mar- sipobranchii. The ket; specifically, in fort . , work composed of pick of the baswithes and stakes interwoven, as in wicker con- ket, the finest of struct ions of gabions, fascines, hurdles, etc. thumberle Tot be basket-worm (bas'ket-werm), n. Same as left in the bas- bag - worm . or ket, to remain un chosen or to the apples, etc. To go last, like the worst to the baskett, to go to prison, with special reference to the alms-basket on which prisoners in the public jails were formerly dependent for support. To pin the baskett, to conclude or settle the matter. basket (bas'ket), v. t. 1. To put in a basket. All that come shall be basketed in time, and conveyed to your door. Cowper , Correspondence, p. 259 (Ord MS.). 2. To cover or protect with basketwork. Basketed bottles of Zem Zem water appeared standing in solid columns. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 454.