flaskets

Noun

flasket (plural flaskets)

1. (UK, dated) 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
2. (dated) 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