单词 | basket-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈbasket-like ˈbasket-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) July 91 He twists or weaves Hasle, or Willow-Twigs, Basket-like, about upright Stakes. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. xxi. 38 This large straw basket-like receptacle is filled with rough feed. 1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 124 The nest of the red-eyed vireo, which hung basketlike on the end of a low, drooping branch. 1933 L. Spier Yuman Tribes 72 A quail-trap..was a basket-like contrivance of arrowweed propped on a split stick. 2005 C. Mann 1491 i. vi. 174 It seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads..crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern. < as lemmas |
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