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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The craft or process of making baskets or objects woven like baskets.
  • noun Baskets and similar objects of interwoven material considered as a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Basketwork or basketware; basket-making.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
  • noun baskets collectively

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the craft of basket making

Etymologies

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From basket +‎ -ry.

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