Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In agriculture, a basket for holding the seed to be sown.

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Examples

  • "A man must plow his field of life deep, Betty, but if a woman didn't trudge 'longside with her hoe and seed-basket, what would the harvest be?"

    Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • I asked, with the greatest dignity, as I threw the seed-basket and my hat on the ground and picked up my rusty old hoe, ready for business.

    Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Grandmother Nelson that was planted deep in my disposition, ready to spring up and bear fruit as soon as I was brought in direct acquaintance with a seed-basket and a garden hoe?

    Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Let us have nothing in the seed-basket that cannot be termed what Jesus called "The word of the kingdom."

    Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Thomas Champness 1868

  • It has fruited, but the fruit is green and scanty, not ripened, as it ought to be, since it grows under such a sky and was taken out of such a seed-basket as our seed has come from.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Does his carrying the seed-basket at one time make it impossible that he shall come with flail and threshing-oxen at another?

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • He lays aside the plough when it has done its work, and takes up the seed-basket, and, in different ways, sows different seeds, scattering some broadcast, and dropping others carefully, grain by grain, into their place -- 'dibbling' it in, as we should say.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • We have a notion that it would be well if the seed-basket were left at home for a while, and some one were to take hold of the plough.

    Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Thomas Champness 1868

  • Seed in a seed-basket is not in its right place; but sown broadcast over the field, it will be waving wheat in a month or two.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • It will be sad to stand with hands empty then, because they were idle in the days of the seed-basket and the reaping-hook, whilst those that sowed and those that reaped shall rejoice together.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

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