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Webster 1913 Edition
Flasket
Flask′et
,Noun.
[Cf. W.
fflasged
a vessel of straw or wickerwork, fflasg
flask, basket, and E. flask
.] 1.
A long, shallow basket, with two handles.
[Eng.]
In which they gathered flowers to fill their
flasket
. Spenser.
2.
A small flask.
3.
A vessel in which viands are served.
[Obs.]
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flasket
FL'ASKET
,Noun.
1.
A vessel in which viands are served up.2.
A long shallow basket.Definition 2024
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See also: fläsket
English
Noun
flasket (plural flaskets)
- (obsolete, Britain) A long, shallow basket with two handles.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
- There, in a meadow by the rivers side, A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled* curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket**, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously@ The tender stalkes on hye.
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- (obsolete) A vessel for serving food.
- 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:
- Take a Sturgeon, draw it, and part it down the back in equal sides and rands, put it in a tub into water and salt, and wash it from the blood and slime, bind it up with tape or packthred, and boil it in a vessel that will contain it, in water, vinegar, and salt, boil it not too tender; being finely boil'd take it up, and being pretty cold, lay it on a clean flasket or tray till it be through cold, then pack it up close.
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