busket

English

Etymology

See bosket, bouquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌskɪt/

Noun

busket (plural buskets)

1. (obsolete) A small bush.
2. (obsolete) A sprig or bouquet.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     Youngthes folke now flocken in every where,
     To gather May-buskets and smelling brere

3. (obsolete) Part of a garden devoted to shrubs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “busket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)