Bas"ket (?), n. [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.
Basket fish Zool., 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 Zool., a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeraeformis. 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.
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Bas"ket, v. t.
To put into a basket.
[R.]
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