Noun

(en noun)

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.

(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

The game of basketball.

A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.

(UK, slang) Genitals.

(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

* 1773 ,

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket .

(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

# A singlestick with a basket hilt.

#* 1773 ,

Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets .

(ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

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(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

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Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.

* 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You'', '' , page 492,

“Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”

“Canasta !” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn?t know you could play that silly game.”

* 2004 , Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy'', Henry Bial (editor), ''The Performance Studies Reader , page 130,

Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta' according to a standard set of rules.We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two '''canasta''' players cease to play ' canasta and start a discussion of the rules.

* 2011 , Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies , unnumbered page,

Modern American Canasta' is a younger cousin of the game of ' Canasta I explain here.

(countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta .

* 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze'', '' , page 47,

Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas', and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one ' canasta .