flasket

See also: fläsket

English

Etymology

From Middle English flasket, from Old French flaschet, diminutive of Old French flasche, from Vulgar Latin *flasca.

Related to Welsh fflasged (“a vessel of straw or wickerwork”), fflasg (“flask, basket”), and English flask.

Noun

flasket (plural flaskets)

1. (dated, UK) A long, shallow basket with two handles.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎^[1]:

     There, in a meadow by the rivers side, A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled* curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket**, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously@ The tender stalkes on hye.

2. (dated) A vessel for serving food.
   • 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook‎^[2]:

     Take a Sturgeon, draw it, and part it down the back in equal sides and rands, put it in a tub into water and salt, and wash it from the blood and slime, bind it up with tape or packthred, and boil it in a vessel that will contain it, in water, vinegar, and salt, boil it not too tender; being finely boil'd take it up, and being pretty cold, lay it on a clean flasket or tray till it be through cold, then pack it up close.

References

“flasket”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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Danish

Verb

flasket

1. past participle of flaske

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• flaskett, flaskette

Etymology

From Old French flaschet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaskɛt/

Noun

flasket

1. (rare) Any receptacle for storage.

Descendants

• English: flasket (dated)

References

• “flasket (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-05.