Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small tub or trough.

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Examples

  • The baquet was the most famous and most popular means of producing the magnetic condition, but not the only one.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Related Words & Expressions: le siège-auto = (baby) car seat le siège-baquet = bucket seat le siège social = head/registered office le siège éjectable = ejector seat être sur un siège éjectable = to be in the ejector seat

    le siège - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Related Words & Expressions: le siège-auto = (baby) car seat le siège-baquet = bucket seat le siège social = head/registered office le siège éjectable = ejector seat être sur un siège éjectable = to be in the ejector seat

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Related Words & Expressions: le siège-auto = (baby) car seat le siège-baquet = bucket seat le siège social = head/registered office le siège éjectable = ejector seat être sur un siège éjectable = to be in the ejector seat

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Sunday I: am skipping out on the WFA baquet in order to have brunch with havocthecat and family.

    WFC update suricattus 2005

  • And if you'd like to see more of Harold's pictures, you can go to his Loyola University Web site at www. loyno.edu/baquet and that's spelled b-a-q-u-e-t -- Tony.

    CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2005 2005

  • According to Mesmer, the magnetic flow could be unblocked by subjecting the patient to an overpowering current of "animal magnetism," in most cases by means of a tub or baquet in which magnetic fluid had been collected through the medium of Mesmer's own highly "magnetic" body, on the analogy of charging a Leyden jar with electricity.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • Such mutually reciprocated "renovating virtue" is a power, like that drawn from the "spots of time" in the Prelude, that has been finally collected -- or rather, "re-collected" -- in the charged baquet of a poem called "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey," to be made available to all future readers as well.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • The initial blocking agent here is apparently the resulting discordance of present and remembered images: as an object of the waking, exterior senses, the Wye valley can no longer serve as the baquet or reservoir from which Wordsworth has drawn vital, transcendental sustenance over the previous five years.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • In short, the memory of Wordsworth's present experience will become, like "the picture of the mind" he has carried with him from his first visit, a Mesmeric baquet for "future years."

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

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