WORKBASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workbasket mean? 

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

1. container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKBASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

workbag; workbasket; workbox

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

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workbasket"):

sewing basket (a workbasket in which sewing materials can be stored)

 Context examples 

By this time my little joke was over, and I was almost ashamed; so I took the typewritten copy from my workbasket and handed it to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

After tea and a go-to-bed romp with the little girls, I attacked the big workbasket, and had a quiet evening chatting with my new friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then having recourse to her workbasket, in excuse for leaning down her face, and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she must be expressing, she added, Well, now tell me every thing; make this intelligible to me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Much obliged, but I'm busy." And Meg whisked out her workbasket, for she had agreed with her mother that it was best, for her at least, not to drive too often with the young gentleman.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But by-and-by, when the teething worry was over and the idols went to sleep at proper hours, leaving Mamma time to rest, she began to miss John, and find her workbasket dull company, when he was not sitting opposite in his old dressing gown, comfortably scorching his slippers on the fender.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)