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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bas·ket /ˈbæskɪt, ||ˈbɑs-/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bas·ket n.
 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.  “Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.”
 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
 3. Arch. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.]
 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.]
 Basket fish Zool., an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton.
 Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence, Basket-hilted, a.
 Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.
 Basket worm Zool., a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. Thyridopteryx ephemeræformis.  The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.
 collection basket, a small basket1 mounted on the end of a pole, used in churches to collect donations from those attending a church service; -- the long pole allows the collector to hold the basket in front of those at the end of the pew, while the collector remains in the aisle. waste basket, a basket4 used to hold waste matter, such as discarded paper, commonly shaped like a truncated cone, with the wide end open and at the top.  Vessels of other shapes, such as oblong containers, are also called waste baskets.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bas·ket, v. t. To put into a basket. [R.]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

      n 1: a container that is usually woven and has handles [syn: handbasket]
      2: the quantity contained in a basket [syn: basketful]
      3: horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to
         throw the basketball [syn: basketball hoop, hoop]
      4: a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the
         hoop [syn: field goal]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

    There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the
    their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews.
    household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that
    called _corbis_ by the Romans.
    "seething-pot" (Job 41:20).
    "basket of plaited cords").