peach basket

Original basketball hoop

A peach basket is a round, slatted wooden container traditionally used for harvesting and transporting peaches.

The original basketball goals were peach baskets nailed to elevated tracks, giving the sport its name—early games required someone to retrieve the ball after each score.

The term now sometimes refers informally to a basketball hoop: He couldn't hit a peach basket from five feet.

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bushel · picking · ripe · basketball · basketball hoop · hoop · summer · Georgia · cobbler · juicy · pit · fuzz · farmers market · net · goal · score · wooden · sweetness

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container type/structure

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Container for transport

cardboard box · barrel · steel drum · shipping container · wooden crate

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peach, basket, peaches, baskets, peachy, basketful, basketry

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G