basset

plural bassets

1. countableuncountablegeographyThe edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
2. countableuncountableA basset hound.
3. uncountablecard gamesA card game resembling faro.

   Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget / Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.

   1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert

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   We are to go and see Pope's new grotto, opened for the first time; then try Hampton Court, and see if Mrs. Howard will stake a little princely gold on a pool of basset.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 173–174

present singular third person bassets · participle present basseting · participle past basseted · past basseted

1. intransitivegeographyTo incline upward so as to appear at the surface.

   A vein of coal bassets.

plural Bassets

1. A surname from French.