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Small pliant twig
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wicker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a wicker basket (= made from the hard stems of a plant ) ▪ She stores her vegetables in pretty wicker baskets. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN basket ▪ Yes B: Nude tramp carrying wicker basket 5 V: More information on ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wicker is a hard fibre often used in the construction of baskets and furniture. Wicker may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "wickerwork," from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish viger , Middle Swedish viker "willow, willow branch"), from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vikja "to move, turn," Swedish vika "to bend," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wike \Wike\, n. A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker . [Prov. Eng.]
Usage examples of wicker.
With a scratched upright piano, a long, bare table, a cushionless window seat and a litter of third-hand chairs, rockers and wicker and canvas deck-chairs, the room was a charity home.
Across the back of the house was a sunroom, all done up in white wicker and green chintz, with a view of absolutely gorgeous gardens, and farther away, across a stone patio and staircase lined with white plaster urns, the blue of Dingle Bay.
If Dobson had been true to druid lore, she might be suspended from above in a hanging wicker basket.
Above a drippy sink hung a drugstore calendar: two Technicolor spaniels in a wicker basket.
Soon he stopped reading, placed one book on top of the other, and began to rock very slowly in the wicker rocking chair, contemplating with regret the banana plants in the mire of the patio, the stripped mango, the flying ants that came after the rain, the ephemeral splendor of another afternoon that would never return.
Sam and Lauren, in one of the wicker chairs, kicked off her espadrilles and curled her tanned, bare legs under her like a child.
They were round or oval, frames of wicker and shaped wood covered in hide and painted in gaudy shapes, the swastika-like fylfot, or animals.
Now, under the midday sun, the Major wandered among the sappers filling the gab ions He tested each one, making certain that the sepoys i, were ramming the earth hard into the wicker baskets, for a loosely filled gabion was no use.
British gunners pointed their telescopes and saw that the cavern had been plugged with earth-filled wicker gabions and baulks of timber.
The round shot smacked into the parapets, destroyed the earth-filled wicker gabions, and sometimes smashed a bloody path through the men.
When the water in the cooking basket was bubbling, Iza gathered up the other plants she had collected, along with the watertight wicker bowl, and went back to the stream.
His face expressed nothing but self-satisfaction, and he appeared to take life as calmly as the goldfinch suspended over his head in its wicker cage: this was the chemist.
Potted begonias and caladiums dangled from the overhang, while baskets of kalanchoe dominated the center of wicker tables.
Ran Kirving carried his mother from her bed to the wicker wheelchair, smoothing the blankets over the remains of her legs.
While Nux raced around barking, Helena and I had skulked off towards the massive statue of Neptune, pretending that the sea of chests and wicker baskets had no connection with us.