workbasket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a basket used to hold sewing, needlework, or other craft materials and tools

   She took the typed pages from her workbasket beside the chair.

A compound of work + basket. Here work has its older domestic-craft sense, especially sewing or needlework, so a workbasket is the container in which the necessary thread, cloth, needles, and tools are kept.

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