flasket
See also: fläsket
English
Etymology
From Middle English flasket, from Old French flaschet, diminutive of Old French flasche, from Vulgar Latin *flasca.
Related to Welsh fflasged (“a vessel of straw or wickerwork”), fflasg (“flask, basket”), and English flask.
Noun
flasket (plural flaskets)
- (dated, 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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- (dated) 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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References
“flasket” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
Danish
Verb
flasket
- past participle of flaske
Middle English
Alternative forms
- flaskett, flaskette
Etymology
From Old French flaschet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflaskɛt/
Noun
flasket
- (rare) Any receptacle for storage.
Descendants
- English: flasket (dated)
References
- “flasket (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-05.