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countable and uncountable, plural bassets
(geology) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
A basset hound. examples
(uncountable, card games) A card game resembling faro. quotations examples
Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget / Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.
1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
We are to go and see Pope's new grotto, opened for the first time; then try Hampton Court, and see if Mrs. Howard will stake a little princely gold on a pool of basset.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 173–174
third-person singular simple present bassets, present participle basseting, simple past and past participle basseted
(geology, intransitive) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.