workbasket
IPA: wˈɝkbæskʌt
noun
- A basket used to hold materials for needlework, etc.
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Examples of "workbasket" in Sentences
- His wife's workbasket was on a high stand by her side.
- Open on her workbasket was a Spanish guide-book and a map attached to it.
- But the workbasket when found was innocuous: the cut-out pieces of a blouse, a skirt with darts.
- She headed in the general direction of her workbasket, Quentin accompanying her as far as the end of the sidewalk.
- It was said that the empress kept it always about her person, tucked into her workbasket, and only after he inquired did she put her little hand in among the embroidery to come up with the handle of the imperial glaive.
- In a happy compromise between her two states of existence, she had already become, with her workbasket before her, the equably vivacious companion with a slight judicious flavouring of information, when the Billickin announced herself.
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