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carrying baskets

carrying baskets is the plural of carrying basket.

Meaning of carrying basket

Noun

carrying basket (plural carrying baskets)

  1. A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.
    • Very little babies are kept in a carrying-basket, a closely woven, rough-plaited basket, semi circular in profile, which the women wear suspended from their foreheads as the Arapesh women wear their net bags.1935, Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”, in Richard Lansdown, editor, Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, University of Hawaii...
    Synonyms:
    burden basket, back basket

Questions about carrying baskets

What is carrying baskets the plural of?
Carrying baskets is the plural of carrying basket.

Words near carrying baskets in the dictionary

  1. carrying a torch for
  2. carrying a tune
  3. carrying all before one
  4. carrying away
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  6. carrying baskets
  7. carrying capacities
  8. carrying capacity
  9. carrying coals to Newcastle
  10. carrying conviction
  11. carrying corn

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