basket Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a container that is usually woven and has handles
handbasket.
noun the quantity contained in a basket
basketful.
noun horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
hoop; basketball hoop.
noun a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
field goal.

Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.
The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
(Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. Improperly so used. Gwilt.
The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. Eng. Goldsmith.