wisket
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wisket (plural wiskets)
- (UK, obsolete, dialect) A whisket, or basket.
- a. 1794, Thomas Green Fesseden, A Treatise on Saltpetre:
- a workman is constantly employed, with a perforated ladle, to take out the marine salt, which now begins to form, and fall to the bottom of the boiler; this, being thrown into a wisket, drains into the boiler