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buck-basket

buck-basket noun: a basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.

Noun

buck-basket (plural buck-baskets)

  1. (obsolete) A basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.
    • Falstaff. […] they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
    • Ford. A buck-basket!
    • Falstaff. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of buck-basket

pluralbuck-baskets

Questions about buck-basket

What does buck-basket mean?
Buck-basket means a basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.
What part of speech is buck-basket?
Buck-basket is a noun.
What is the plural of buck-basket?
The plural of buck-basket is buck-baskets.

Words near buck-basket in the dictionary

  1. buck's night
  2. buck's party
  3. buck's-horn
  4. buck-and-wing
  5. buck-and-wings
  6. buck-basket
  7. buck-baskets
  8. buck-bean
  9. buck-beans
  10. buck-eyed
  11. buck-goat

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