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basket
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n 1: a container that is usually woven and has handles [syn:
basket, handbasket]
2: the quantity contained in a basket [syn: basket,
basketful]
3: horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which
players try to throw the basketball [syn: basket,
basketball hoop, hoop]
4: a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the
hoop [syn: basket, field goal]
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biscuit
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n 1: small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
2: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
British term) [syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]
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blanket
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adj 1: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay
increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket
sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention
with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet
nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn:
across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing,
all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing,
extensive, panoptic, wide]
n 1: bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the
covers over his head and went to sleep" [syn: blanket,
cover]
2: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn:
blanket, mantle]
3: a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a
nuclear reactor
v 1: cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"
2: form a blanket-like cover (over)
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bluejacket
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n 1: a serviceman in the navy [syn: bluejacket, navy man,
sailor, sailor boy]
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bracket
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n 1: a category falling within certain defined limits
2: either of two punctuation marks (`
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brisket
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n 1: a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of
beef
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casket
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n 1: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin,
casket]
2: small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other
valuables [syn: casket, jewel casket]
v 1: enclose in a casket
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cricket
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n 1: leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the
forewings together
2: a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players;
teams take turns trying to score runs
v 1: play cricket
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docket
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n 1: (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be
tried or a summary of the court's activities
2: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
[syn: agenda, docket, schedule]
v 1: place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120
cases docketed were tried"
2: make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe
it in a list
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picket
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n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
[syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry,
watch, spotter, scout, picket]
2: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
3: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of
work
4: a vehicle performing sentinel duty
5: a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: picket,
pale]
6: a form of military punishment used by the British in the late
17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one
foot on a pointed stake [syn: picket, piquet]
v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to
protest the layoffs"
2: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
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thicket
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n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood,
coppice, copse, thicket]
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ticket
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n 1: a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled
to something (as to ride on public transportation or to
enter a public entertainment)
2: a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic
that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature,
price, etc. [syn: tag, ticket]
3: a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who
violates a traffic regulation)
4: a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run
for election to public offices [syn: slate, ticket]
5: the appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just
the ticket for a small family" [syn: ticket, just the
ticket]
v 1: issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for
parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or
else you will be ticketed!" [syn: ticket, fine]
2: provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed
passengers can board now"
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trinket
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n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle,
bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
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wicket
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n 1: cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps
topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket
2: a small arch used as croquet equipment [syn: wicket,
hoop]
3: small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger
door) [syn: wicket, wicket door, wicket gate]
4: small opening (like a window in a door) through which
business can be transacted [syn: wicket, lattice,
grille]
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becket
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n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162
to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's
attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170) [syn: Becket,
Thomas a Becket, Saint Thomas a Becket, St. Thomas a
Becket]
2: (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at
the other; used to secure loose items on a ship
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pickett
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n 1: American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous
charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875) [syn: Pickett, George
Edward Pickett]
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pricket
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n 1: a sharp metal spike to hold a candle
2: male deer in his second year
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crockett
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n 1: United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who
died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) [syn:
Crockett, Davy Crockett, David Crockett]
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newmarket
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n 1: a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th
century
2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and
king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a
separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in
his hand and successively higher cards are played until the
sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in
the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan,
Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
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tucket
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n 1: (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments;
"he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was
greeted with a rousing fanfare" [syn: flourish,
fanfare, tucket]
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upmarket
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adj 1: designed for consumers with high incomes; "he turned up
in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker
[ant: downmarket]
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toolkit
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blackett
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hackett
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bedjacket
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bickett
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rickett
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midwicket
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duckett
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haymarket
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