basket-making

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• Making

  ·noun Composition, or structure. II. Making ·noun External appearance; from. III. Making ·noun a <...

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• Basket

  ·vt To put into a basket. II. Basket ·noun The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. III. Basket...

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• Basket

  There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: 1) A basket (Heb. sal,...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• basket

  An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or una...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• basket

  In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, ...

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• Basket

  The Hebrew terms used in the description of this article are as follows: (1) Sal, so called from the...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Love-making

  ·noun <<Courtship>>. ...

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• Making-iron

  ·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...

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• Making-up

  ·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. II. Making-up ·noun The act of bringing spirits t...

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• Mischief-making

  ·adj Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. II. Mischief-making ·noun The act or practice of ma...

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• Money-making

  ·adj Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. II. Money-making ·adj Su...

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• face-making

  Begetting children. To face it out; to persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one wh...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pear making

  Taking bounties from several regiments and immediately deserting. The cove was fined in the steel fo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• making meat

  on the great Western prairies, consists in cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffal...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• making iron

  One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...

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• making off

  Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...

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• Basket ball

  ·add. ·- A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to ...

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• Buck-basket

  ·noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. ...

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• Basket Makers

  In 3 Ed. IV. they were allowed to have shops only in the Manor of Blanch Appleton (S. 151). The 52n...

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• bawdy basket

  The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bread basket

  The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow i...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pin basket

  The youngest child. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• basket-fence

  n. Local name for a stake-hedge. See quotation. 1872. G. S. Baden-Powell, `New Homes for the Old C...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ballast-basket

  Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast. Supplied to the gunner for ...

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• basket-fish

  A name for several species of Euryale; a kind of star-fish, the arms of which divide and subdivide m...

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• basket-hilt

  The guard continued up the hilt of a cutlass, so as to protect the whole hand from injury. ...

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• hand basket portion

  A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack in the basket

  A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger. ...

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