basin
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
Everybody had washed before going to bed, apparently, and the bowls were ringed with a dark sediment which the hard, alkaline water had not dissolved. Shutting the door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey’s tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair.
(obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
[…] Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […]
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […]
There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet.
(geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
To create a concavity or depression in.
To serve as or become a basin.
To shelter or enclose in a basin.
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