Noun

(en noun)

A small bag for carrying money.

* 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers

And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.

(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

* , Episode 12, The Cyclops

It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.

(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.

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)