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wisket

wisket noun: a basket.

Noun

wisket (plural wiskets)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A basket.
    • a workman is constantly employed, with a perforated ladle, to take out the marine salt, which now begins to form, and fall to the bottom of the boiler; this, being thrown into a wisket, drains into the boilera. 1794, Thomas Green Fesseden, A Treatise on Saltpetre

Forms of wisket

pluralwiskets

Questions about wisket

What does wisket mean?
Wisket means a basket.
What part of speech is wisket?
Wisket is a noun.
What is the plural of wisket?
The plural of wisket is wiskets.

Words near wisket in the dictionary

  1. Wisinski
  2. Wisinskis
  3. Wiske
  4. wisker
  5. wiskers
  6. wisket
  7. wiskets
  8. wiskinkie
  9. wiskinkies
  10. wiskostatin
  11. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

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