Bread-basket
a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
an agricultural area that provides large amounts of food, especially grain, to other areas.
Slang. a person’s stomach or abdomen.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a geographical breadbasket:
Iowa is a breadbasket state.
Historical Examples
The Robbers Friedrich Schiller
Trafalgar Benito Prez Galds
Jiglets Walter Jones
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 25, 1917 Various
The Yukon Trail William MacLeod Raine
The True History of Tom and Jerry Charles Hindley
The Odyssey Homer
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade
Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia Seba Smith
Four Years A Scout and Spy E. C. Downs
noun
a basket for carrying bread or rolls
a slang word for stomach
n.
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