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# basket

«basket» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **basket; cradle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

basket; cradle

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A container made of woven strips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/basket/#m1)

### how it differs from today

In the sentences it also means a cradle for a baby, or a store of food. Today we mostly use it for a woven container.

### examples

- Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/basket/#x1)
- He was already in his basket. (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/basket/#x2)
- Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/basket/#x3)

### primary record

basket

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 359 (Torah 16, tales 343, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 13.6 (Torah alone 12.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1291/)
- [And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.844/)
- [And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.684/)
- [Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.742/)
- [Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.754/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/basket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.