bason

See also: bas-on, Bason, and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XV, page 297
      Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.
    • 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
      [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."

References
  • bason in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Esperanto

Noun

bason

  1. accusative singular of baso

Middle English

Noun

bason

  1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of basyn
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