BASSINET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bassinet mean? 

• BASSINET (noun)
  The noun BASSINET has 2 senses:

1. a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed

2. a perambulator that resembles a bassinet

  Familiarity information: BASSINET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASSINET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

baby's bed; baby bed (a small bed for babies; enclosed by sides to prevent the baby from falling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A perambulator that resembles a bassinet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

baby buggy; baby carriage; carriage; go-cart; perambulator; pram; pushchair; pusher; stroller (a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around)

 Context examples 

“It is nothing, my fair lord,” said Alleyne, who had now loosened his bassinet, which was cracked across by the Norman's blow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nay, nay, your head I can see is still totty, and i' faith little head would you have, had your bassinet not stood your friend.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“See how the blood rips from your bassinet.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne stood by the tiller, looking backwards, the fresh wind full in his teeth, the crisp winter air tingling on his face and blowing his yellow curls from under his bassinet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have marksmen in the Company who will notch with a shaft every crevice and joint of a man-at-arm's harness, from the clasp of his bassinet to the hinge of his greave.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Man, man, cried Sir Oliver, your mind still runs on nought but blades and bassinets.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bore no arms save the long and heavy sword which hung at his saddle-bow; but Terlake carried in front of him the high wivern-crested bassinet, Ford the heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon, while Alleyne was entrusted with the emblazoned shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)