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Webster 1913 Edition

Basket

Bas′ket

,
Noun.
[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.)
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.

Bas′ket

,
Verb.
T.
To put into a basket.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Basket

B'ASKET

,
Noun.
1.
A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes,splinters or other 52
flexible things interwoven. The forms and sizes of baskets are very various, as well as the uses to which they are applied; as corn-baskets, clothes-baskets, fruit-baskets, and work-baskets.
2.
The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels. But in general, this quantity is indefinite.
In military affairs, baskets of earth sometimes are used on the parapet of a trench, between which the soldiers fire. They serve for defense against small shot.

B'ASKET

,
Verb.
T.
To put in a basket.

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