English Dictionary

breadbasket

/ˈbɹɛdbɑːskɪt/

noun

A basket used for storing or carrying bread. / (agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

She placed the freshly baked bread in the breadbasket.

意味（1）

A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

In theſe eaſtern countries they eat upon the plain ground, and when it is dinner-time they ſpread a round piece of leather, and lay about it tapeſtry, and ſometimes cuſhions, whereupon they ſit croſs-leg'd before they begin to eat, […] At laſt they take up the leathern table with bread and all, which ſerveth them alſo inſtead of a table-cloth and bread-basket, they draw it together with a ſtring lik a purſe, and hang it up in the next corner.

意味（2）

(agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.

意味（3）

(humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.

Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. … (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)