Middle English Dictionary Entry
basket n.
Entry Info
| Forms | basket n. Also bascat, (late) baskot. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. MnF dial. bâchot dosser, pannier & OF bascho(u)e wooden or wicker container. See Wartburg, FEW under bascauda & L. Spitzer, MLN 63.58 (1948). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A container made of withes, splints, rushes, etc.; wicker basket, hamper, etc.; (b) a basketful; (c) as a name.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1209) Pipe R.Winch60/37 : In j bascat j d. ]
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)260 : Of bred he fulde a basket.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)158 : A litel basket: un corbel.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.445 : I wol nat do no labour with myne handes, Ne make baskettes and lyue ther by.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330b/b : Calathus is a basket y made of splyntes to bere figes þer Inne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331a/b : Canistrum is a basket or a frayel y made of white persch ouþer of reed and serueþ to do Inne.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4489 : A mikel rauen mi basket hent.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.126 : And fedde ȝow..with fyue loues, And left baskettes ful of broke mete.
- (1412) Doc.Adderbury in ORS 87 : Pro i bascat pro calce portanda iii d.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.40.16 : I hadde three basketis [WB(2): panyeris; L canistra] of melow vpon myn heed.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.665 : [In] an ouen hoot..this figgy basket [L qualum] done is.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)47b : Panyers & baskettis to bere awey erþe.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)388/9 : He wolde make baskettis..of palme levis.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)9b : A Basket: Aristor, Cartallum, Calathus, Cophinus, Corbis, swalus, quaxillum, Sporta, sportula.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)6853 : In a basket pryuely thay putten thys boy when he was borne.
- a1500(?a1450) St.Dor.(1) (Hrl 5272)195/279 : A baskot he helde..withe roses and aples, hire to present.
b
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)132 : Of brede & of broken mete bascketes twelue.
c
- (1191) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.2135 : Willelmus Basket.
- (1301) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 2113 : Alexandro Basket.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lond.in Unwin Finance77 : Ricardus atte Baskette.
2.
Associated quotations
- (1229) Pat.R.Hen.III350 : Willelmum Basketwricte.
- (1381) R.Cov.in Dugd.Soc.1653 : Johannes Basketmaker.
- (1402) *Acc.Exch.K.R.43/6.m.4 [OD col.] : In vj baskettes emptis de Thoma, Basketmaker.
- (1441) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)258 : The seid Whit bakers mow bake whete brede that was called sum tyme cribill brede, and also basket brede such as is sold in chepe for pore men.
- (1452-4) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)341/24 : In the baxket makers hows.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1424) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.184/1357 : Thomas Kent atte Basket beside Billyngesgate.
Note: Add to gloss 1.(c): '; as name of an alehouse.'