Bason

Quick meaning: Bason is a noun meaning (obsolete) Alternative form of basin.

Meaning

(obsolete) Alternative form of basin.

Example Sentences

“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.”

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.

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.

[...] 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."

Word Forms

• basons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include basa, baza, baze, bain, bass, bains.

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