Definition of "basons" [basons]

• Plural form of bason. (noun)

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• ""basons," spoons, candlesticks, and salt "sellars," were among the many pewter utensils unmistakably brought on the good ship."
• "And first she pulled all their teeth out; and then she bled them all round: and then she dosed them with calomel, and jalap, and salts and senna, and brimstone and treacle; and horrible faces they made; and then she gave them a great emetic of mustard and water, and no basons; and began all over again; and that was the way she spent the morning."
• "And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple."