Word Finder - baskets

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A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

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A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.

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A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

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In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.

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A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

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The point guard drove toward the basket.

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The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

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The last-second basket sealed the victory.

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The game of basketball.

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Let's play some basket.

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A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.

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The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.

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In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

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A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

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(ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

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The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

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Bastard.

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Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

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To place in a basket or baskets.

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To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

The grapes are cut and then conveyed in baskets by the Gallegos (as the labourers who come specially from Galicia in Spain for this purpose are termed) to the winery.

The bags are then sealed up, packed in oblong or circular baskets and sent to Smyrna or other ports on mules.

The chief native industries are leather-work, embroidery and filigree metal-work; and the weaving of straw mats and baskets is extensively practised.

The revolutionaries went about among the excited people with baskets, begging coppers for their destitute and miserable governor.

In 1897, at Manchester, special awards were made for fruit baskets and milk-testers.

Corn is trodden by oxen, and kept in osier baskets narrowing to the top, or clay granaries.

The leading industries comprise manufactures of tweeds, hosiery, clogs, baskets and leather, besides the timber trade, nursery gardening and the making of machinery and iron implements.

Sonsonate is the centre of a rich agricultural district, and one of the busiest manufacturing towns in the republic. It produces cotton cloth, pottery, mats and baskets, boots and shoes, sugar, starch, cigars and spirits.

The scales showed seven pounds less, he was eating baskets of fruit and goody-goody health food, plus he'd laid off the booze completely.

This figure of speech refers, not to a basket or box in which things can be stored, but to the baskets, used in India in excavations, as a means of handing on the earth from one worker to another.

Even at the time when they were first known to Europeans, they had stone and lava hatchets, shark's-tooth knives, hardwood spades, kapa cloth or paper, mats, fans, fish-hooks and nets, woven baskets, &c., and they had introduced a rough sort of irrigation of the inland country with long canals from highlands to plains.

Trade is in cattle, agricultural produce, wine, baskets and game.

In other cases they are planted in open baskets of wood or wire, using the porous peat and sphagnum compost.

Hats, baskets, cloths and rope are woven and are exported to a limited extent; small quantities of copra are also exported.

Basket salt takes its name from the conical baskets from which it is allowed to drain when first it is " drawn " from the pan.

The salt is " drawn " from the pan and placed (in the case of boiled salts) in small conical baskets hung round the pan to drain, and thence moulded in square boxes and afterwards stove-dried, or (in case of unboiled salts) " drawn " in a heap on to the " hurdles," on which it drains, and thence is carried to the store.

The latter sometimes lapses into methods which are not usually thought compatible with prison discipline, such as the permission to play on musical instruments, the holding of concerts, the privilege of smoking and chewing tobacco, of receiving baskets of provisions, novels and newspapers from friends outside.

Weaving is an industry less important than formerly; mats and baskets are manufactured, and deep-sea fishing is an important industry.

The Navaho and Moqui Indians make woollen blankets and rugs and the Pimas baskets.

The men of Tabaco are largely engaged in the cultivation of hemp; the women in weaving cloth, baskets and mats.

The inhabitants of Milis manufacture reed baskets and mats, which they sell throughout Sardinia.

They are skilful cultivators and good boat-builders, the carpenters, being an hereditary caste; there are also tribes of fishermen and sailors; their mats, baskets, nets, cordage and other fabrics are substantial and tasteful; their pottery, made, like many of the above articles, by women, is far superior to any other in the South Seas; but many native manufactures have been supplanted by European goods.

Palm-fibre mats and hats, fans, bamboo baskets and cotton fish-nets are woven here.

In the corners stood carboys of acid in wicker baskets.

Using fall and harvest oriented containers instead of predictable glass vases; copper or aluminum pails, dark wicker baskets, and hollowed out gourds are great fall containers for floral arrangements.

The next step is to remove the harvested crop to the drying-shed; primed leaves are placed at once in shallow baskets or boxes, and when under cover are strung on string or on wire and hung up on laths in the barn.

The stony plains which cover so large a part of the country are often covered with acacia jungle, and in the dry water-courses a kind of wild palm, the dom, abounds, from the leaves of which baskets and mats are woven.

Coarser straw hats are made at other places, as well as hammocks, baskets, &c.

Wine, fruit, cork, baskets and sumach are exported in small coasting vessels; there are important sardine and tunny fisheries; and boats, sails and cordage are manufactured.

On the outskirts of the city, near Eastlake Park, is the Indian Crafts Exhibition, which contains rare collections of aboriginal handiwork, and where Indians may be seen making baskets, pottery and blankets.

On account of their regular form they have been used, threaded on wire, for making ornamental baskets.

In addition to these are the many small domestic industries, such as the making of straw hats, mats, baskets, pottery, ropes and rough textiles.

The city has an important trade in fruit, and has various manufactures, including paper, fruit packages, baskets, motor boats, gasolene launches, automobile supplies, hosiery and knit goods, air guns and sashes and blinds.

To the second century, lastly, belongs in part the evidence of the catacombs, on the walls of which are depicted persons reclining at tables supporting a fish, accompanied by one or more baskets of loaves, and more rarely by flasks of wine or water.

Rough weirs, formed of stakes and twigs, were erected across English rivers in Saxon times for holding up the water and catching fish, and fish-traps, with iron-wire meshes and eel baskets, are still used sometimes at weirs.

Its bark is used for the construction of canoes, and for drinking-cups, dishes and baskets.

From Sheffield Lodge, twelve years later, she applied to the archbishop of Glasgow and the cardinal of Guise for some pretty little dogs, to be sent her in baskets very warmly packed, - "for besides reading and working, I take pleasure only in all the little animals that I can get."

Both blocks and baskets are usually suspended from the roof of the house, hanging free, so that no accumulation of water is possible.

Other articles of manufacture are leather, tobacco, porcelain, cement, spirits, lead pencils (Nuremberg), plate-glass, sugar, matches, aniline dyes, straw hats and baskets.

According to his description shallow pits were sunk, and the gravel excavated was gathered into a walled enclosure where it was crushed and water was poured over it, and it was finally sifted in baskets and sorted by hand.

As they are plucked, the green leaves are thrown into baskets, and twice daily the pluckings are taken into the factory.

A procession is formed in the nave, consisting of the lord high almoner representing the sovereign, the clergy and the yeomen of the guard, the latter carrying white and red purses in baskets.

They also made various kinds of mats, baskets and fans from the leaves of the pandanus, the bark of the hibiscus, from species of bohmeria or other Urticaceous plants.

Curiously veined veneers are obtained from the roots; and the root-shoots are largely employed in the making of crates, coalcorves or baskets, hurdles, withs and bands, whip-handles and other objects.

The town is flourishing and rapidly increasing, and possesses very extensive wire factories (in connexion with which there are puddling and rolling works), machine works, and manufactories of gloves, baskets, leather, starch, chemicals, varnish, oil and beer.

Among the city's manufactures are lumber, furniture, baskets, pearl buttons, cars, carriages and wagons, Corliss engines,waterworks pumps,metallic burial cases, desks, boxes, crackers, flour, pickles and beer.

When the grapes have attained to maturity they are collected by hand and then transferred in baskets or carts to the press house.

For the same reason the grapes are collected in baskets in order to avoid excessive pressure, and are transported in these to the press house.

On the first day, which celebrated the union of Adonis and Aphrodite, their images were placed side by side on a silver couch, around them all the fruits of the season, "Adonis gardens" in silver baskets, golden boxes of myrrh, cakes of meal, honey and oil, made in the likeness of things that creep and things that fly.

Native cloth, brass wares, pot-stone wares, cartwheels, straw and reed baskets, and a small quantity of silk, form the only manufactures.