Word Meanings - BASKETFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As much as a basket will contain.

Related words: (words related to BASKETFUL)

• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• BASKETRY
  The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
• BASKETFUL
  As much as a basket will contain.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• BASKET
  1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer. 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• BUCK-BASKET
  A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.
• WASTEBASKET
  A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
• WORKBASKET
  A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.