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单词 basset
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bassetn.1

/ˈbasɪt/
Etymology: < French basset ‘a terrier, or earthing beagle’ (Cotgrave), originally adjective, diminutive of bas-se low; see base adj.
A short-legged dog used in unearthing foxes and badgers.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > basset-hound
basset1600
basset-hound1883
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxvii. 865 Couple vp all the olde earth dogs: and after let loose the yoong ones, incouraging them to take the earth, and crying vnto them: creepe into them basset, creepe into them.
1885 Daily News 2 May 3/5 Pictures of harriers and bassets.

Compounds

basset-hound n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > basset-hound
basset1600
basset-hound1883
1883 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 23 June 371/2 The last new club is ‘The Basset-hound Club’, its objects being to promote the breeding of pure Basset-hounds d'Artois, rough and smooth.
1928 Morning Post 20 Oct. 6/1 Basset Hounds—those wholly delightful miniatures of the classic Bloodhound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

bassetn.2

/ˈbasɪt/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s bassett(e /bəˈsɛt/.
Etymology: ( < French bassette ), < Italian bassetta, < bassetto somewhat low, diminutive of basso low; see base adj.
An obsolete card game, resembling Faro, first played at Venice. Hence basset-table.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > basset
basset1645
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > basset > table
basset-table1705
1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 211 We went to the Chetto de San Felice, to see the noblemen..at Basset, a game at cards which is much used.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. ii Advised her to set up a basset-table.
1706 A. Pope Basset-table in Lady M. W. Montagu et al. Court Poems 8 Look upon Basset, you who Reason boast; And see if Reason may not there be lost.
a1718 N. Rowe Royal Convert Prol. 8 Not to forget Your Piquet Parties, and your dear Basset.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 347 Gamblers playing deep at basset.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

bassetn.3

/ˈbasɪt/
Etymology: etymology uncertain; ? from French basset ‘a low stoole’ (Cotgrave); see basset n.1
Geology.
The edge of a geological stratum showing at the surface of the ground; an outcrop.
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1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 131 To what points soever the rise & dip direct their course, the row, side basset or streek, lyes quite contrary.
c1810 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) III. 396 The regular basset or outcrop of the Bedford limestone.
attributive.1791 E. Darwin Econ. Vegetation ii. notes A basset coal-mine at Woolarton in Nottinghamshire.1851 Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 264 The oolite range..presenting a lofty baset-edge to the west.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

bassetv.1

/ˈbasɪt/
Etymology: < basset n.2
In phrase to basset away: to play away at basset.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (transitive)] > play at basset
to basset away1712
1712 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 3rd Pt. i. 43 He had bassetted away his Money, and good humour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

bassetv.2

/ˈbasɪt/
Etymology: < basset n.3
Geology.
Of strata: To crop out at the surface.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [verb (intransitive)] > crop out
crop1665
basset1783
skirt1806
to crop up1844
outcrop1848
to crop out1849
overstep1883
1783 Wedgewood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 284 I collected some of this earth, which bassetted out..near Winster.
1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 98 The strata of the chalk basset, therefore, to the north.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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