basnet
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The groom stood in blank rumination; bore himself enduringly; and awaited with oxlike equanimity the stroke of some mace upon his basnet, which should crush him to the ground.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
They hammer'd out my basnet point Into a round salade, he said, The basnet being quite out of joint, Natheless the salade rasps my head.
From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris
The word is spelt in various forms, "bassinet," "bascinet," "bacinet," or "basnet."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
And see ascending squadrons come Between Tweed's river and the hill, Foot, horse, and cannon: hap what hap, My basnet to a 'prentice cap, Lord Surrey's o'er the Till!
From Marmion by Henry Morley
Thus the basnet— "My basnet to a prentice cap, Lord Surrey's o'er the Till."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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