Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A portable grate or cresset for a bedroom.
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Examples
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Under the great chimney a good fire burned in an iron fire-basket; a high old settee, rudely carved with figures and
Lay Morals 2005
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The blackened stones under the fire-basket released drifts of old tainted incense in the heat.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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He tore off his cotte, wrapped a corner of the skirt about his hand, and leaned to grasp again at the glowing cylinder thrust upright in the fire-basket.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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The brazier was a beautiful thing, a credit to the smith who made it; on three braced legs like saplings, the fire-basket a trellis of vine-leaves.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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He tore off his cotte, wrapped a corner of the skirt about his hand, and leaned to grasp again at the glowing cylinder thrust upright in the fire-basket.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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The brazier was a beautiful thing, a credit to the smith who made it; on three braced legs like saplings, the fire-basket a trellis of vine-leaves.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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There was a table of pine-wood, sleeked with hand-rubbing; a round stone hearth with a bronze fire-basket, for the cold upland nights; and a carved red bed, whose bearskins we would throw down at evening before the fire.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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He had the fire-basket and other small utensils with him on the journey.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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But one couldn't put a bomb in a fire-basket because the temperature there would set it off or destroy it, before a pushpot left its truck launching-vehicle.
Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953
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The flames leapt eagerly about a great oak log which hissed fitfully on top of the glowing coals contained in the big iron fire-basket.
The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914
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