basketing

English

Verb

basketing

  1. present participle and gerund of basket

Noun

basketing (plural basketings)

  1. (rare) The act of grouping together in, or as if in, a basket.
    • 1853, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, A Book for the Home Circle, page 146:
      […] such fillings of camphor and cologne bottles; such bagging of cloaks and India-rubbers; such basketings of cake and oranges, which both Mrs. Pell and the captain were convinced could not be obtained after once leaving New York!
    • 1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627)
      They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.
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