n. A bread-basket; a basket for provisions; hence, any wicker basket.n. One of a pair of baskets slung across the back of a beast of burden to contain a load.n. A basket for carrying objects on the back of a man or woman, used in mountainous countries and where the use of beasts of burden is not common.n. 4. An adjunct of female dress, intended to distend the drapery of the skirt at the hips.n. A part of woman's head-dress; a stiff frame, as of wicker or wire, to maintain the head-dress in place.—6. In arch., same as corbel.n. A shield of twisted osiers used in the middle ages by archers, who fixed it in the ground in anupright position and stood behind it.n. 8. In hydraulic engineering, a basket or wickerwork gabion filled with gravel or sand, used in the construction of dikes, or to protect embankments, etc., from the erosion of water.n. In the inns of court, formerly, a servant who laid the cloths, set the salt-cellars, cut bread, waited on the gentlemen in term-time, blew the horn as a summons to dinner, and rang the bell; now, one of the domestics who wait in the hall of the inns at the time of dinner. Also pannier-man.