| 单词 | eel-basket |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseel-basket b. with noun defining the purpose, as alms-basket, clothes-basket, eel-basket, work-basket, etc. ΚΠ 1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 196/2 A high weir, with all its appendages of bucks and hatchways, and eel-baskets. 1863 M. L. Whately Ragged Life Egypt vii. 50 A work-basket was stocked. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice i. 2 Everywhere..hung..clothes-baskets, work-baskets, toy-baskets, market-baskets. eel-basket eel-basket n. a trap of basket-work with funnel-shaped entrance, allowing the eels to enter, but preventing their escape. ΚΠ 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 125 Eel Putchons..are the ordinary eel baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels. < as lemmas |
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