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basketwork

n. 1 Material woven in the style of a basket. 2 The craft of making such material.

Usage examples of "basketwork".

The sliding panels had been either cut away or hammered back in their distorted grooves, where they had rusted fast, and now the openings were screened with panels of basketwork or animal-hides draped like curtains.

O-Zone, as the two troopers peered through the basketwork of branches.

Powered by this unconventional engine, the train surged ahead, big basketwork wheels spinning into a blur.

A shop selling thumbnail holo sets and basketwork had blocked part of the curb with a towering pillar of baskets.

Adepts faced one another, and their staves lashed out in swirling blazes of light, a basketwork of glowing lines surrounding them, swift and deadly.

They dwell mainly in northeastern Arizona and produce superb pottery, carpets, basketwork, and inlaid and overlaid silver jewelry which is in great demand.

Vellain flopped heavily into a capacious basketwork chair in their bedroom.

He is drawn about in a light carriage made of basketwork, and this serves him also for his bed.

It had little tables covered with orange-checked cloths and basketwork chairs of exceeding discomfort with orange cushions on them.

The women laid slabs of tough dark bread down on the basketwork platters, then piled on the meat and other dishes, or brought clay bowls marked with waving patterns.

She sat bolt upright in the small soft bed, heart beating as if it were a bird trying to escape the basketwork cage of her chest.

He stood in a balanced partial crouch, alert, pliant, with his arms partly extended and his baton, a light, slender wand of nightflower wood with a cup-shaped hilt of basketwork at one end, resting across them.

Totha screamed in triumph and was on the point of leaping into his chariot to finish him when she choked, stood stiffly upright, her eyes glaring, and then clutched at the basketwork of the chariot.

There was a basketwork engine and some basketwork trucks which he played with a good deal.

One structure, still unfinished--perhaps for the purposes of the movie--showed the open basketwork of the walls which normally would have been covered by bark.