breadbasket

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A basket used for storing or carrying bread.

   “Everything was impeccably organized for the dinner. Platters and salad bowls, bread baskets, pumpkin pies. The oven gave off a mouthwatering smell as we sat on a couple of high stools beneath the hanging pans.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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!)”