chip basket
Britishnoun
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a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
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a basket made of thin strips of wood, used esp for packing fruit
Example Sentences
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There are dedicated baskets for Bitcoin and Ether, and a “blue chip” basket that holds the 10 largest digital assets on Makara’s platform.
From New York Times
Rosemary would roll up her “pieces,” and put away her work in a little homemade chip basket, which she would hang upon its own nail.
From Project Gutenberg
I suppose, is mount vessels which, having run on the river till they wore only fit for firewood, still continued "just one more trip;" and then, of course, the slightest concussion, either on a bank or a floating log, would break them up like a chip basket.
From Project Gutenberg
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