bason

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See also: bas-on, Bason, and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: , volume II, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 13:
      “Sure, my dear Sir Thomas, a bason of soup would be a much better thing for you than tea. Do have a bason of soup.”
    • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. , volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, page 297:
      Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.
    • 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
      [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."

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Noun

bason

  1. accusative singular of baso

Middle English

Noun

bason

  1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of basyn