Definition of Handbaskets

1. Noun. (plural of handbasket) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handbaskets

1. handbasket [n] - See also: handbasket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbaskets

handbagging
handbagless
handbags
handbags at dawn
handball court
handballed
handballer
handballers
handbarrow
handbarrows
handbasin
handbasket
handbaskets (current term)
handbell
handbells
handbike
handbikes
handbill
handbills
handblocked
handblown
handbook
handbooks
handbow
handbra
handbrake
handbrake turn

Literary usage of Handbaskets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1919)
"In the houses we found wooden Boules, Trayes & Dishes, Earthen Pots, handbaskets made of Crab shells wrought together . ..."

2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"I saw a glass-case full of poodle-dogs, seventy-fours, landaus, handbaskets, and several other gimcracks, nailed to a doorpost with " only a shilling," on a ..."

3. The Pilgrim Fathers, Their Church and Colony by Winnifred Cockshott (1909)
"In the houses, too, were wooden bowls, trays, and dishes, earthen pots, handbaskets made of crab shells, and an English pail or bucket, besides baskets of ..."

4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"... and were laden with bundles and handbaskets, after the manner of old women generally. The men were in a small minority, and nearly all of them old. ..."

5. Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth, A by Phillip Stubbes, Thomas Neogeorgus, Gervase Babington (1879)
"has E.'s ' handbaskets' headline, on back, and 'great paynes ' side-note, &c. 11 ii 14.—has all the side-notes and headlines markt EF, and the top sidenote ..."

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