Basket

n. [W. basgawd, basged, bascod, Ir. bascaid, bascueid, basceid, Corn. basket, Lat. bascauda; “barbara de pictis venit bascauda Britannis,” Martialis; W. basg, plaiting, network.]

1. A vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters, or other flexible things, interwoven. “Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.” Dyer.
2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of fish.
3. (Arch.) The vase of the Corinthian capital. Gwilt.
4. (Mil.) A gabion. See GABION.