Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(basket). A movable box hanging from the side of a cart (1 Sam. 6:8,11,15).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
The box or case in which the golden mice and the images of the emerods were placed by the Philistines when the ark was returned (1 Sam. 6:8-15).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
perhaps from 7264 (in the sense of being suspended), a box (as a pannier)