Wicker
['wɪkə] or ['wɪkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).
(noun.) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork.
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Definition
(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
(n.) Same as 1st Wike.
(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Twig, osier, withe.
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Definition
n. a small pliant twig or osier: wickerwork.—adj. made of twigs or osiers.—adj. Wick′ered made of wicker: covered with wickerwork.—n. Wick′erwork basketwork of any kind.
Editor: Warren
Examples
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Without her market-basket, which is a sort of wicker well with two flapping lids, she never stirs abroad. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Winkle seized the wicker bottle which his friend proffered, and took a lengthened pull at the exhilarating liquid. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Gabriel paused, in some alarm, in the act of raising the wicker bottle to his lips, and looked round. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this day cow-hide wicker boats (coracles) are used upon the west coast of Ireland, where there is plenty of cattle and a poverty of big trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chairs and the tables were of wicker. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Piani was taking the wooden cork out of a big wicker-covered wine jug. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The lantern, the spade, and the wicker bottle were found, that day, in the churchyard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The older man sat in that wicker chair; it was he who used the cigar-holder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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