breadbasketn.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bread basket, hamper, or hutch.

1660 C. Hoole tr. Pliny the Younger in Centuria Epist. Anglo-Lat. 66 When you shall go on hunting, you shall, by my advice, carry a table-book, as well as a bread-basket and a flaggon with you.

1790 Edinb. Advertiser 17 May 343/3 Porter Cups, Bread Baskets, Bread Trays, Wine Funnels.

1827 ‘M. Dods’ Cook & Housewife's Man. (ed. 2) i. 55 A silver bread-basket in the centre, in which rusks or cheese-biscuits are served on a napkin.

1980 Cook's Mag. Nov. 69/2 (advt.) This year give a tasteful flavorful Wolferman's gift..in a delightful woven wicker bread basket.

2011 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. (Food section) We sat around a big table and passed the bread basket and salad bowl.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 15 I let drive at the Mark, made the Soupe-Maigre rumble in his Bread-basket, and laid him sprawling.

1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος I. 46 Our landlady, who was standing..with her mouth wide open, and her hands locked together..resting on her prominent breadbasket.

1904 Leslie's Monthly Mag. Mar. 594/1 ‘Feels sick, do yer?’ sez he. ‘Where?’ I draws a face like a funeral and rubs my bread basket. ‘All over here,’ sez I.

2012 B. Rotella & B. Cullen Unstoppable Golfer 52 She..knew that doing so would be like kicking her opponent right in the breadbasket.

1846 Miners' Jrnl. & Pottesville (Pa.) Gen. Advertiser 3 Jan. 2/6 The Albany Knickerbocker expresses the opinion that ‘America is destined to be the bread basket of the world’​.

1977 Newsweek (Nexis) 4 July 65 They call it the Yellow Road, the rich breadbasket of America stretching from Texas to the Canadian border, golden brown during the summer and early fall with mile after an endless mile of wheat.

2006 Ecologist Feb. 5/2 The world's breadbaskets are dramatically shrinking, the world's urban population is rapidly growing, and the world's oil supplies are falling short of demand.

1940 Illustr. London News 17 Feb. 193/1 ‘Molotov's breadbaskets’, as the Finns have named, with grim humour, Russia's new type dual-purpose bombs, are reported to have caused great havoc in the destruction of Sortavala in the first week of February.

1941 Word Study Nov. 1/1 A few radio commentators and newspapermen have applied the phrase Goering, or Goering's, breadbasket to a similar type of bomb dropped sometimes by the Germans in raids over London.

1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxiv. 179 Lone bombers dropping ‘bread-baskets’ which spew scores of tiny bombs over a wide area.

2016 J. O. Theobald These Dark Wings (e-book ed.) Did you see the Heinkels dive and hit the wharf last night? They look like cigars, but they drop breadbaskets. You need sand for those, not water.