1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 81 I'll fight you both one after the other,—with baskets.

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. v. 171 This exercise should..be tried with blunt lances and sticks with baskets.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 219 Their maried Women weare on their heades, fine wickre Basquettes of a foote and a haulf long.

1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. E3 This youth in a basket, with a face of Brasse.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) At sieges, they make use of a small basket filled with earth, and ranged on the top of the parapet.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 208 The leg [of the Bee] is dilated, and forms a triangular cavity on its inner surface, which is known as the ‘basket.’

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.

1783 B. Franklin Let. 8 Oct. in Wks. (1888) VIII. 265 The basket [of the Montgolfier balloon] contain'd a sheep, a duck and a cock.

1784 London Chron. LVI. 219/2 The balloon being filled..he seated himself in the basket.

1909 Flight 29 May 310/2 Thanks to Mr. Brewer's insisting on the envelope being immediately over the basket in the course of its swayings during the trying of the lift of the balloon, we were able to carry easily two more bags of ballast.

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies i. 16 In its usual form [the balloon] is spherical, with a car or basket suspended below it.

1936 N. Coward Still Life iii. 73 Come on, Johnnie—don't argue with the poor little basket.

1958 ‘J. Gillespie’ Disobedience i. 10 He's a nice old basket really.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 24 Grey-headed sportsmen, who had sunk from fox-hounds to basket-beagles and coursing.

1801 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 357 Communication..kept up by means of the common Basket boats.

1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. viii. 522 Crossing in basket-boats at Trichinopoly.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 171 In a blue coat, and bright basket buttons.

1901 Gray's Anat. (ed. 15) viii. 671 [Cells] of the inner layer run for some distance horizontally..giving off at intervals collaterals, which pass..towards the cell-bodies of Purkinje's corpuscles, around which they become enlarged, and ramify like a basket. Hence these cells of the inner layer are named basket-cells.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 395/1 The..basket-cells..have a rounded body giving off many branching dendrons.

a1631 J. Donne Elegies in Poems (1912) I. 79 When he swolne, and pamper'd with great fare, Sits downe, and snorts, cag'd in his basket chaire.

a1782 E. Parkman Diary 298 1 great chair 3/- Six lath basket chairs 24/-.

1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 20 He sank into a well-cushioned basket-chair.

1883 Congress. Rec. Feb. 2580/1 This basket-clause seems to be a sort of Prophetic fine-comb with us.

1897 Congress. Rec. Mar. 367/2 If we strike..[an item] from the dutiable list, we transfer it to the ‘basket clause’ at 25 per cent.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. B 4/6 The basket clause permits trust companies to invest up to 15 per cent of capital.

1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 114 The clergie had thir portions given them in baskets; and were thence calld sportularii, basket clerks.

1923 Daily Mail 28 Apr. 5 Those compact multilayer coils called ‘basket’, ‘pancake’, or ‘honeycomb’ coils.

1960 H. Carter Dict. Electronics 25 Basket coil, an inductor consisting of a self-supporting spiral winding, adjacent turns being disposed in criss-cross fashion to minimize self-capacitance.

1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 346/2 Ordinary basket darning.

1892 Illinois Kentuckian (Lexington) Dec. 88/3 (D.A.) This is a noted place for picnics where pies and cake and basket dinners prevail.

1904 Charlotte Daily Observer 21 Aug. 8 After the speech a basket dinner will be enjoyed by the picnickers.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 5 Basket Fern.

1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 76 There are several other names [for the male fern] in use locally, such as Basket-fern in Cornwall and Hampshire.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Basket-fish..a name given by the English in North America to a very remarkable fish, sometimes caught in the seas thereabout.

1665 R. Howard Committee iv. i, in Four New Plays 118 As if we had brought A Basket Hare, to be set down and hunted.

1860 A. Wynter Curiosities of Civilisation 493 The basket justices were so called because they allowed themselves to be bought over by presents of game.

1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 11 Aug. 14 At noon a bountiful basket lunch was served under the trees in the park.

1897 Harper's Mag. June 61/1 Over the head a small flat basket, and a great finely woven basket over all—such was their burial fashion... The Wetherills [i.e. R. Wetherill and brothers] soon recognized the ethnological importance of their discovery, and have provisionally named the people who buried in these older graves the ‘Basket-Makers’.

1904 A. J. Burdick Mystic Mid-region, Deserts of Southwest 92 The basket-makers of that time had all the skill that is known to their descendants to-day.

1938 Southwestern Lore June 5 (D.A.) We now place the beginning of the Basket Maker II period as about the opening of the Christian Era and its end about 400 a.d., with the Basket Maker III period lasting up to 700 a.d.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 806 The Basket Maker and Pueblo cultures are continuous in character as well as in time... The..sequence begins with Basket Maker II, stage I having been left for an as yet undiscovered culture which was inferred as earlier.

1976 Leicester Mercury 16 July 1/1 (advt.) Basket meals available every evening.

1981 R. Lewis Seek for Justice v. 148 The main floor itself was packed with small tables where men and women sat, beer glasses and basket meals in front of them.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Basket-meeting, in the West, a sort of pic-nic, generally with some religious ‘exercises’.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 191 A corn-husking is announced..and the neighbors from far and near assemble, each bringing his provisions in a basket. From the latter feature these pic-nics derive their names of Basket-meetings.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 215 He had been to Jenkinsville t'other day to what the Methodis called a ‘basket-meetin’.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Basket-meeting,... It sometimes occurs in sparsely populated districts, that a clergyman's stipend is largely paid in kind, and the occasions upon which the obligation thus incurred is carried out, are called in the West basket-meetings. In the East they are Donation-parties.

1882 in G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians (1946) 198 This year witnessed a good, old-fashioned basket picnic.

1904 Boston Herald 22 Aug. 6 A long political speech in the open air..at a basket picnic meeting in Ohio.

1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 796 The stanhopea sigrina (or basket plant) is exceedingly rare and fragrant.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Basket salt..is..made from the water of our salt springs in Cheshire.

1770 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 148 Grains of salt..about the size of the finest basket salt.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 40 With fine young fencers, basquet-scramblers, thus It pleas'd vaine Otho to distinguish us.

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 1/2 Cassis rubra..Red Basket-shell.

1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) ix. 150 The Basket-shells (Corbula), though a large genus, are represented in this country by a single species, the Common Basket-shell (C. gibba).

1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) ix. 151 There are..other Basket-shells beside those of the genus Corbula..the Pointed Basket-shell (Neæra cuspidata).

1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) ix. 152 The Short Basket-shell (N. abbreviata)... The Fine-ribbed Basket-shell (N. costellata).

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 66 The files being prepared with masks and basket-sticks..may be ordered to circle entire.

1883 Daily News 12 July 3/5 Embroidered in raised gold, worked in basket stitch on white satin.

1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) ii. 24 Variously termed..cheesestones, basketstones, caskstones.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 45/1 In certain districts, notably in the Straits Settlements..it [sc. syrup] is slowly boiled up in open double-bottom pans... The sugar thus produced..forms a species of small-grained concrete. It is called ‘Basket Sugar’... In the Straits Settlements the ‘Basket Sugar’ factories are of considerable importance.

1925 New Yorker 4 Apr. 22/2 His attached silk collar, which he wore plain with basket-weave tie.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 80/1 Basket weave, woollen fabrics of hopsack or mat-weave, with a basket effect.

1960 Times 21 Jan. 14/4 Fabrics were interesting in texture, including basket-weave woollens.

1910 H. M. Hobart Dict. Electr. Engin. Winding, Basket, more often known as the chain type of winding.., in which the coils belonging to the three separate phases are laid out in two ranges, the centre of one coil or set of coils being occupied by the side or sides of the adjacent coil or coils on opposite sides.

1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 403 Having gott armes, brought them the day before by basket women.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. ix. 93 The basket-women flitted about displaying their stores.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. *E3 Dame-jeanne, a..large bottle..covered with basket-work.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 123 Its venerable pillars and beautiful basket-work capitals.

1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 415 A case or cocoon..covered with a few little sticks longitudinally arranged. It contained a female chryalis, with the remains of the caterpillar. In Philadelphia..these are..popularly called drop-worms and basket-worms.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 20 Maunchets sum in pantrye doe basket.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 370 Christ commanded the fragments..to be basketted up.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 667 Basket up the family of plagues.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 297 A greyling..is scarcely so easy to basket.

1778 A. Kippis Biogr. Brit. I. 240 (note) He..would suffer himself to be banged and basketted for refusing a challenge.

a1811 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Comedies (1822) II. 37 I see you're basketed so high, That you look down upon the gods.

1867 Daily Tel. Mar. The meeting of Opposition members had a good deal to do with its being ‘basketed.’

1883 Proctor in Knowledge 6 July 13/2 Your handwriting will cause our..sub-editor to ‘basket’ your communications rather summarily.