waterbasket

English

Alternative forms

• water basket, water-basket

Etymology

From water +‎ basket.

Noun

waterbasket (plural waterbaskets)

1. A basket that is woven tightly enough for carrying liquids, especially water.
   • 1970, Hansjakob Seiler, Cahuilla Texts with an Introduction, page 122:

     There was a — what is it called — a big waterbasket lying there. His mother had practically filled it with what she was gathering and was ready to go home.

   • 1977, Karl W. Luckert, Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, page 86:

     That is where the Squaw Dance started; and that is where the hand-bundle (drumstick) for beating the waterbasket originated.

   • 2009, Grace Anne Schaefer, As Shadows Fall, page 123:

     Horda pulverized a small amount of mugwort and willow bark and set it in a waterbasket to brew into strong tea.

   • 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise, page 84:

     Apt decided her visitor's arrival would be a while yet, so went back to her cottage to fetch some sweet-root scones and a woven birch waterbasket of herbal tea.

   • 2016, Jarold Ramsey, Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America, page 20:

     For the first time he smokes, and for a wonder he creates a house "with smoke coming out of it—that is, a real domestic house, manmade as it were, out of which steps a beautiful woman, already carrying a waterbasket.