bason

See also: bas-on and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin
    • Francis Bacon
      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.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XV, page 297
      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.

References
  • bason in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Esperanto

Noun

bason

  1. accusative singular of baso
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