Basket word meaning and definition

[noun] a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
[noun] a container that is usually woven and has handles
[noun] horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball
[noun] the quantity contained in a basket

\Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 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. 3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith. {Basket fish} (Zo["o]l.), an ophiuran of the genus {Astrophyton}, having the arms much branched. See {Astrophyton}. {Basket hilt}, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence, {Baskethilted}, a. {Basket work}, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. {Basket worm} (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus {Thyridopteryx} and allied genera, esp. {T. ephemer[ae]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.
\Bas"ket\, v. t. To put into a basket. [R.]

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