Definitions for bassets

bassets bas·set

Spelling: [bas-it]
IPA: /ˈbæs ɪt/

Bassets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in bassets (abessst).

Definitions for bassets

noun

  1. one of a breed of hounds having short legs, long body and ears, and usually a black, tan, and white coat.
  2. an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
  3. an 18th-century card game similar to faro.

verb (used without object)

  1. to crop out.

Origin of bassets

1610-20; French: noun use of adj. basset of low stature (bass- low (see base2) + -et attenuating suffix; see -et)

Examples for bassets

The American beagle has a brother in France, called the basset.

"There are many of your opinion on that head," said basset, with a savage grin.

"Don't let him talk so much," said basset, in a whisper, to the doctor.

“I would it were,” said basset, folding his arms beneath his head.

A basset, is one of those Hounds, incapable of having a 'wicked eye.'

Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek.

“And ours were uncommon men—there is all the difference,” retorted basset.

The emergence of strata at the surface is called by miners their outcrop or basset.

O Mistress basset, could you not compass the same for Blanche?

A few yards, perhaps,” surmised basset, “but not so far as the wharf.

Word Value for bassets
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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