Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of basket
plural basketings
- rareThe act of grouping together in, or as if in, a basket.
They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.
1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627)1 more example
[…] such fillings of camphor and cologne bottles; such bagging of cloaks and India-rubbers; such basketings of cake and oranges, which both Mrs. Pell and the captain were convinced could not be obtained after once leaving New York!
1853, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, A Book for the Home Circle, page 146
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