Obs. [a. OF. Basclois ‘a name given indifferently to all foreign peoples’ (Roquefort) = med.L. Basculi, Basculones, brigands or raiders from Vasconia: see BASQUE.] A Basque.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 242. Fote folk inouh of baskles & Gascouns … Þorghe mountayn & more þe baskles ȝe[de].
