[f. prec. sb.; cf. to bag.]
1. To put into a basket; also fig.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneid, I. (Arb.), 27. Maunchets sum in pantrie doe basket.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, III. vi. 370. Christ commanded the fragments … to be basketed up.
1785. Cowper, Task, II. 667. Basket up the family of plagues.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, viii. (1880), 297. A grayling … is scarcely so easy to basket.
2. To hang up in a basket; also fig.
1778. Kippis, Biog. Brit., I. 240, note. He … would suffer himself to be banged and basketted for refusing a challenge.
1822. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., II. 37. I see you’re basketed so high, That you look down upon the gods.
3. To throw into the waste-paper basket; also fig. to reject as unsuitable.
1867. Daily Tel., March. The meeting of Opposition members had a good deal to do with its being ‘basketed.’
1883. Proctor, in Knowledge, 6 July, 13/2. Your handwriting will cause our … sub-editor to ‘basket’ your communications rather summarily.
