The Basket of Bread — Infobox Painting| backcolor=#FBF5DF painting alignment=right image size=300px title=The Basket of Bread artist=Salvador Dalí year=1926 type=Oil on canvas height=12 width=1.2 height inch=12 width inch = 1.2 city=Philadelphia museum=Philadelphia… … Wikipedia
bread — n. & v. n. 1 baked dough made of flour usu. leavened with yeast and moistened, eaten as a staple food. 2 a necessary food. b (also daily bread) one s livelihood. 3 sl. money. v.tr. coat with breadcrumbs for cooking. Phrases and idioms: bread and… … Useful english dictionary
bread-basket — (n.) 1550s, basket for holding bread, from BREAD (Cf. bread) (n.) + BASKET (Cf. basket). Slang meaning stomach is attested from 1753, especially in pugilism … Etymology dictionary
bread basket — bread baskets also breadbasket N COUNT: usu with poss If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the… … English dictionary
bread|bas|ket — «BREHD BAS kiht, BAHS », noun. 1. a basket or tray for holding or carrying bread. 2. Figurative. a region that is a chief source of grain: »... Alentejo, the rich breadbasket province of rolling wheat and cork groves (Atlantic). 3. Slang,… … Useful english dictionary
bread — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fresh ▪ hard, mouldy/moldy, soggy, stale ▪ This bread is going stale. ▪ crusty … Collocations dictionary
basket — noun 1 container ADJECTIVE ▪ bamboo, plastic, straw, wicker, wire, woven, etc. ▪ laundry, sewing … Collocations dictionary
Basket — There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: 1) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17, 19). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Bread Basket — Fargo, North Dakota … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
bread-basket — Stomach … A concise dictionary of English slang
