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- noun Plural form of
basin .
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Examples
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These fish have been both laid up in basins and traveling in the Atlantic fish lanes.
Florida: Tough Wind In The Keys Tim Romano 2007
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Any body with half a brain knows that the transfer of water between basins is a terrible thing ... and in fact is illegal in Canada.
border skirmish 2005
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– "And they eat from tin basins on a table without a cloth?"
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As a mark of honor the tea was poured into our basins from the same pot from which the ponbo received his.
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1942: A washroom with 8 spigots and as many basins is quite adequate.
Work Camp 10487 GW 2010
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Zachriel: The environment is a given, just as it is with biological evolution, for instance, the diurnal cycle and the collection of water in basins.
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The environment is a given, just as it is with biological evolution, for instance, the diurnal cycle and the collection of water in basins.
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The environment is a given, just as it is with biological evolution, for instance, the diurnal cycle and the collection of water in basins.
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Vegetable dishes were called basins, pudding dishes twifflers, small cups were called sneak cups.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Given the change we're seeing in activity in the different basins, that is we're loosing gas activity and we're picking up oil activity.
unknown title 2012
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