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

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

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

(Gwilt)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, UK) A long, shallow basket with two handles.

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There, in a meadow by the rivers side, A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled* curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket **, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously@ The tender stalkes on hye. }}

(obsolete) A vessel for serving food.

* {{quote-book, year=1685, author=Robert May, title=The accomplisht cook, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Take a Sturgeon, draw it, and part it down the back in equal sides and rands, put it in a tub into water and salt, and wash it from the blood and slime, bind it up with tape or packthred, and boil it in a vessel that will contain it, in water, vinegar, and salt, boil it not too tender; being finely boil'd take it up, and being pretty cold, lay it on a clean flasket or tray till it be through cold, then pack it up close. }} ----