What is "workbasket"

Usage examples of "workbasket".

She had thread in the workbasket she had grabbed when Pirisi dragged her from her room.

I bent swiftly and grabbed the workbasket, in time to prevent it being soaked by the flood of milk.

I got to my feet, replaced the workbasket on the table, and shoved the rag delicately over the puddle of milk with my foot.

Her workbasket stood open, some half-knitted garment dragged out and left to dangle carelessly down the side like a dead rabbit.

Brianna went as usual to the Big House, taking Jemmy and her workbasket, and was surprised to find Bobby Higgins seated at the table, finishing his supper.

A workbasket on the table was overflowing with bright threads and pieces of queer cloth.

There was a workbasket spilling silks in the drawing room, and the writing desk showed signs of use.

Open on her workbasket was a Spanish guide-book and a map attached to it.

Jill threw her practice piece into the workbasket with such fury that Lovyan and Dannyan both laughed at her.

Jezebel, his attentive mother, put aside the clothes and her workbasket and called the attention of her son.

She snatched her workbasket from the bench and hurried across the garden and through the gate, leaving Mara staring after her.

Margaret squirmed uncomfortably, never lifting her gaze from the flying crochet needle and the lacy snowflakes of antimacassars overflowing the workbasket on her lap.

She sat in her chair with her workbasket beside it, her rug spread across her lap.

Her satin-lined workbasket, with the work thrown carelessly across it, was still on the rustic table, just as she had left it when they went to the pine wood.

She had been sewing, but she put her workbasket aside to intercept him in the hall.