baskeat

== Yola == === Alternative forms === baskeate === Etymology === From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”). This would point to the slang of the ring, where the breast is called the bread-basket. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /basˈkɛːt/ === Noun === baskeat (figurative) breast ==== Related terms ==== baskaate === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25