whisket

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Noun

whisket (plural whiskets)

  1. (UK, dialect) A basket; especially, a straw provender basket.
  2. (engineering) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for whisket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)