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buck-baskets

buck-baskets is the plural of buck-basket.

Meaning of buck-basket

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]...

Questions about buck-baskets

What is buck-baskets the plural of?
Buck-baskets is the plural of buck-basket.

Words near buck-baskets in the dictionary

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

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