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basketwork

noun

Etymology

From basket + -work.

  1. derived from *baskis✻
  2. derived from bascauda
  3. derived from baschet
  4. inherited from basket
  5. suffixed as basketwork — “basket + work”

Definitions

  1. Material woven in the style of a basket.

    • Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony.

  2. The craft of making such material.

    • In one of his letters to Mrs [Madge] Kendal, Joseph [Merrick] mentioned that he hoped one day to be able to learn basket work. She promptly arranged for an instructor to teach him the craft.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA