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Breadbasket   /brˈɛdbˌæskət/   Listen
Breadbasket

noun
1.
A geographic region serving as the principal source of grain.
2.
An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion.  Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy.
3.
A basket for serving bread.






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"Breadbasket" Quotes from Famous Books



... put his hand into the breadbasket, and seized a handful of the biscuit. "Now I'll bet you a glass of grog that you don't throw a biscuit at my head," cried Jerry, with ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... proofs, for since you've been ill I've been eating your pork and drinking your grog, which latter can't be too plentiful in the Bay of Biscay. And now that I've cured you, you'll be tucking all that into your own little breadbasket, so that I'm no gainer, and I think that you may be convinced that you never had or will have two more disinterested thumpings in all your born days. However, you're very welcome, so say no more ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat



Words linked to "Breadbasket" :   gastrointestinal tract, basket, rumen, tummy, internal organ, alimentary tract, handbasket, digestive tract, craw, tum, arteria gastrica, first stomach, gastroepiploic vein, fourth stomach, region, digestive tube, crop, GI tract, reticulum, abomasum, gastric artery, psalterium, alimentary canal, stomach, omasum, third stomach, second stomach, epigastric fossa, vena gastrica, gastroomental vein, vena gastroomentalis, pit of the stomach, gastric vein, viscus



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