BASKETFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basketful mean? 

• BASKETFUL (noun)
  The noun BASKETFUL has 1 sense:

1. the quantity contained in a basket

  Familiarity information: BASKETFUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASKETFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a basket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

basket; basketful

Hypernyms ("basketful" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a basketful of linen.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His sight having been injured in his early wars by a basketful of lime which had been emptied over him when he led the Earl of Derby's stormers up the breach at Bergerac, he had contracted something of a stoop, with a blinking, peering expression of face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)