basketing

basketing is the present participle and gerund of basket.

Meaning of basket

basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)

(transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
(transitive) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
- Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.1974, Publishers Weekly, volume 206, numbers 1-14, page 70

basketing (plural basketings)

(rare) The act of grouping together in, or as if in, a basket.
- […] such fillings of camphor and cologne bottles; such bagging of cloaks and India-rubbers; such basketings of cake and oranges, which both Mrs. Pell and the captain were convinced could not be obtained after once leaving New York!1853, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, A Book for the Home Circle, page 146
- They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627)

plural	basketings

What does basketing mean?: Basketing means the act of grouping together in, or as if in, a basket.
What is basketing the present participle and gerund of?: Basketing is the present participle and gerund of basket.
What part of speech is basketing?: Basketing is a noun.
What is the plural of basketing?: The plural of basketing is basketings.

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