basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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(noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
(noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
(noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
(noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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casket | (noun) small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables | Synonyms: jewel casket |
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(noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: coffin |
(verb) enclose in a casket | - |
gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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