flasket
flasket noun: a long, shallow basket with two handles.
Noun
flasket (plural flaskets)
- A long, shallow basket with two handles.
- There, in a meadow by the rivers side, A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled* curiously, 25 In which they...1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
- A vessel for serving food.
- Take a Sturgeon, draw it, and part it down the back in equal sides and rands, put it in a tub into water and salt, and wash it from the blood and slime, bind it up with tape or packthred, and boil it in a vessel that will contain it, in water, vinegar, and salt, boil it not too tender; being finely...1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook
Forms of flasket
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Origin of flasket
From Middle English flasket, from Old French flaschet, diminutive of Old French flasche, from Late Latin flasca. Related to Welsh fflasged (“a vessel of straw or wickerwork”), fflasg (“flask, basket”), and English flask.
Questions about flasket
- What does flasket mean?
- Flasket means a long, shallow basket with two handles.
- What part of speech is flasket?
- Flasket is a noun.
- What is the plural of flasket?
- The plural of flasket is flaskets.
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