buck-basket

English

Noun

buck-basket (plural buck-baskets)

  1. (obsolete) A basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
      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 […]
    • 1691, Thomas d’Urfey, Love for Money, or, The Boarding School‎[1], London: J. Hindmarsh, act II, scene 2, page 21:
      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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