Word Meanings - HASK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to HASK)

• 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.
• FLAGSHIP
  The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• FLAGSTAFF
  A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
• BASKETRY
  The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
• BASKETFUL
  As much as a basket will contain.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• FLAGSTONE
  A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• 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.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• CARRY
  1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence
• CARRYING
  The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• 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.