stokes basket
n.— «They attached what’s called a stokes basket to the ladder, and using control ropes above and below, they lowered Gamez to the ground.» —“Man Suffers Severe Tar Burns” by Mindy Blake KOLD-TV (Tucson, Ariz.) May 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Eric often drives past cotton fields near his home in Tucson, Arizona, which has him wondering about the phrase He’s walking in tall cotton, meaning “Things are going well.” Variants include to be in tall cotton and to walk in high...