Breadbasket

//ˈbɹɛdbɑːskɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

    "In theſe eaſtern countries they eat upon the plain ground, and when it is dinner-time they ſpread a round piece of leather, and lay about it tapeſtry, and ſometimes cuſhions, whereupon they ſit croſs-leg'd before they begin to eat, […] At laſt they take up the leathern table with bread and all, which ſerveth them alſo inſtead of a table-cloth and bread-basket, they draw it together with a ſtring lik a purſe, and hang it up in the next corner."

  2. 2
    a basket for serving bread wordnet
  3. 3
    A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

    "[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's."

  4. 4
    an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion wordnet
  5. 5
    The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack. humorous

    "Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)"

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  1. 6
    a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain wordnet

Etymology

From bread + basket.

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