bason

See also: bas-on, Bason, and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] 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: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] 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."

References

• “bason”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AONBs, Abson, Banos, Bosna

Esperanto

Noun

bason

1. accusative singular of baso

Middle English

Noun

bason

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of basyn