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A long, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

A bushel basket. [Obs.]

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

f Reed canary grass. Rye grass, pasture, hay. Lolium perenne, var. Seneca grass, fragrant basket work, etc. North. Hierochloa borealis. Sesame grass. Same as Gama grass (above). Sheep's fescue, sheep pasture, native in Northern Europe and Asia. Festuca ovina. Small reed grass, meadow pasture and hay. North. Deyeuxia Ca…

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. Grate surface (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Dryden.

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]

t or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman.

A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.

A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish. [Improperly spelled kittle.]

An osier basket used for catching fish. [Prov. Eng.]

straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A basketful. [Obs.]

A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.