basket

«basket» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: basket; cradle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

basket; cradle

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A container made of woven strips. tree →

how it differs from today

In the sentences it also means a cradle for a baby, or a store of food. Today we mostly use it for a woven container.

examples

• Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• He was already in his basket. (Peter Pan) tree →
• Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.17, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

basket

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 359 (Torah 16, tales 343, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 13.6 (Torah alone 12.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;
• And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
• And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
• Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
• Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «basket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.