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  • noun Plural form of basket.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of basket.

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Examples

  • Upon this tent cover we emptied a big pile of shelled ripe corn, fetched in baskets from the bull boats in which it had been temporarily stored inside the lodge.

    Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden 1917

  • Over the saplings which are being carried in baskets, is inscribed Nehet Ana; that is to say, the Sycamore of Ana.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Most dreaded, beyond even the Harry & David sympathy baskets, is that particularly nasty sub-species of ridged cardboard book-package in which a few publishers persist in sending books, bound with metal staples thick as spikes.

    I Am Sorry to Inform You 2010

  • Twining grass into nets and mats and baskets is technology.

    mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010

  • I also use Glade products to put in baskets as they make great Christmas gifts.

    GIVEAWAY – The Fragrance Collection by Glade « Bored Mommy 2009

  • Each time he was brought back and put in baskets and put into the water for days.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • And that soil, packed up the mountainsides in baskets on their backs!

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • This same uncertainty about the global economic outlook was evidenced by the lackluster money flows into funds that invest in baskets of commodities.

    Wheat and Gold Stole the Quarter's Headlines Carolyn Cui 2010

  • Most dreaded, beyond even the Harry & David sympathy baskets, is that particularly nasty sub-species of ridged cardboard book-package in which a few publishers persist in sending books, bound with metal staples thick as spikes.

    I Am Sorry to Inform You 2010

  • The work was hard - all done by hand with picks and shovels and the excavated rocks and dirt had to be carried out by hand in baskets or "stretchers" made by the POWs themselves.

    The Story of the Taiwan POW's 2009

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