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Definition of Moses basket in English: Moses basketnounˈməʊzɪzbɑːskɪt A carrycot or small portable cot made of wickerwork. Example sentencesExamples - They brought her to me in a Moses basket so I could say goodbye.
- She breastfed him at about 7.30 p.m., changed him and put him in the Moses basket beside the bed.
- You want a Moses basket and the matching bedding and duvet and cot buffers, but guidelines to prevent cot death say you shouldn't be using them.
- Karen and her partner were completely unprepared, but friends and family rallied round and loaned them a Moses basket and brought round bags of spare baby clothes.
- He bought the child a Moses basket, and decorated it with pictures cut out from story books.
- Which means I frequently find myself bent over my bed, or her crib, or her Moses basket, with my wrist contorted into this odd and painful position as she sucked away.
- Equipment doesn't come cheap, with the cheapest Moses basket costing around £30.
- The sheepskin can line a Moses basket or be laid on the floor next to you and carried from place to place.
- Some parents prefer a Moses basket or carrycot for the first few months but there's no reason why your baby can't sleep in a cot straight away.
- She said: ‘She was about the size of a bag of sugar and we saw her lying in a tiny Moses basket.’
- He told police he had fed the twins before putting them to bed in their separate Moses baskets.
- They brought her in a Moses basket and we filled it with teddy bears which the nurses said they would keep with her.
- I was going to calm and soothe my daughter by the sheer force of my love, breast-feed the little darling on demand, and begin revisions on my third novel while she napped blissfully in her Moses basket beside me.
Synonyms cot, cradle, bassinet, carrycot
Origin Moses, with allusion to the biblical story of Moses, left in a basket among the bulrushes as a baby (Exod. 2:3). |