carrying basket

plural carrying baskets

1. A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.

   The man's carrying basket is often split at the back from top to bottom and loosely laced together with a twine, enabling the carrier to expand his load if desired.

   2014, Chester U. Strait, chapter 3, in The Chin People, Xlibris, page 262

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   Very little babies are kept in a carrying-basket, a closely woven, rough-plaited basket, semi circular in profile, which the women wear suspended from their foreheads as the Arapesh women wear their net bags.

   1935, Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”, in Richard Lansdown, editor, Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, University of Hawaii Press, published 2006, page 315

   Synonyms: burden basket, back basket