Meaning of buck-basket | Babel Free

Definitions

A basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.

obsolete

Examples

“Falstaff. […] they conveyed me into a buck-basket. Ford. A buck-basket! Falstaff. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins […]”

“Iane, let the Buck-basket be got ready for the foul-cloaths, de’e hear, and bid the Landress take care to mend all the shifts; these great Ramping-girles do so tear their Linnen, it almost makes me wilde.”

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