dog basket

plural dog baskets

1. A basket, often cushioned, in which a dog sleeps.
2. archaicslangnauticalA container holding the remnants of meals from the cabin.

   […] and would look with quiet scorn on his less punctilious shipmates when they made a rush at the cuddy "dog basket."

   1879, The Nautical Magazine, volume 48, page 307

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   A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.

   1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34