dog basket

dog basket (plural dog baskets)

1. A basket, often cushioned, in which a dog sleeps.
2. (slang, nautical, archaic) A container holding the remnants of meals from the cabin.
   • 1879, The Nautical Magazine (volume 48, page 307)

     […] and would look with quiet scorn on his less punctilious shipmates when they made a rush at the cuddy "dog basket."

   • 1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories (page 34)

     A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.

• dog bed