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basket Basketball a. an open horizontal metal hoop fixed to the backboard, through which a player must throw the ball to score points b. a point or points scored in this way basket [′bas·kət] (design engineering) A lightweight container with perforations. (mechanical engineering) A type of single-tube core barrel made from thin-wall tubing with the lower end notched into points, which is intended to pick up a sample of granular or plastic rock material by bending in on striking the bottom of the borehole or solid layer; may be used to recover an article dropped into a borehole. Also known as basket barrel; basket tube; sawtooth barrel. basket filled with treats, representative of feast on Easter Sunday. [Folklore: Misc.] See : Easter How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In addition to hauling groceries to one's home, market baskets are also used as baby strollers and laundry baskets to haul clothes to the laundromat. Where she used to make the climb from the basement, carrying a laundry basket, now she finds the ascent daunting. Oscar Madison's laundry basket is neater than this. |
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