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Balaam Basket or Box (A)

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An ass’s pannier. In printer’s slang of America, it is the place where rejected articles are deposited. (See Balaam.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bajulus
Bajura
Baked
Baked Meat
Baker (The)
Baker’s Dozen
Baker’s Knee (A)
Bakshish
Bal
Balaam
Balaam Basket or Box (A)
Balafré
Balai
Balak
Balâm
Balan
Balance (The)
Balance
Balayer
Balclutha (The tower of)
Bald