Meaning of dog basket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A basket, often cushioned, in which a dog sleeps.
2. A container holding the remnants of meals from the cabin.
   archaic, slang

Examples

“[…] and would look with quiet scorn on his less punctilious shipmates when they made a rush at the cuddy "dog basket."”

“A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.”

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