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Basket

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

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Breadbasket 76% connected

The stomach.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Creel 76% connected

An osier basket, such as anglers use.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Frail 76% connected

A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hamper 76% connected

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Punnet 76% connected

A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Skep 76% connected

A coarse round farm basket.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 3

Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Goal 76% connected

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Score 76% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Basketful 92% connected

As much as a basket will contain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hoop 92% connected

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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