basketing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
basketing
- present participle and gerund of basket
Noun[edit]
basketing (plural basketings)
- (rare) The act of grouping together in, or as if in, a basket.
- 1853, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, A Book for the Home Circle, page 146:
- […] such fillings of camphor and cologne bottles; such bagging of cloaks and India-rubbers; such basketings of cake and oranges, which both Mrs. Pell and the captain were convinced could not be obtained after once leaving New York!
- 1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627)
- They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.