Wicker

Word WICKER
Character 6
Hyphenation wick er
Pronunciations /ˈwɪkə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Wicker"

What do we mean by wicker?

Flexible twigs, branches, plant stems, or pieces of synthetic material, used for making baskets or furniture. noun

Wickerwork. noun

See whicker.

To cover or tit with wickers or osiers; inclose in wickerwork.

To twist, from being too tightly drawn. Child's Ballads, Gloss.

To twist (a thread) overmuch.

A small pliant twig; an osier; a withe. noun

Wickerwork in general; hence, an object made of this material, as a basket. noun

A twig or branch used as a mark: same as wike. noun

Consisting of wicker; especially, made of plaited twigs or osiers; also, covered with wickerwork: as, a wicker basket; a wicker chair.

Made of flexible strips of shaved wood, ratan, or the like: as, wicker furniture; a wicker chair.

Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork. adjective

A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. noun

Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. noun

Same as 1st Wike. noun

A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture noun

Wickerwork. noun

Made of wickerwork. adjective

Slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork noun

Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) noun

A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture

Wickerwork.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Wicker

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The word "wicker" in example sentences

Synthetic wicker is a recent design trend, gaining popularity quickly due to its durability and resistance to extreme temperatures and sun exposure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Made of black synthetic resin wicker, this outdoor sofa set is built to last. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(These are also countries where you will genuinely still see people carrying their shopping around the local city markets in wicker baskets, some even with gingham linings.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Mrs. Bhaer spoke every one bustled about, and in five minutes the three little girls and Teddy were packed into the "clothes-basket," as they called the wicker wagon which Toby drew. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)

I was staying in an 'open room', one of three such rooms at the top of a normal hotel (still within my budget for accommodation) made from a material that I would call wicker, not sure if there is a more specific name for it though. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You could label the wicker/cloth basket on the school side. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in the garden there's a little nest: a kind of wicker orb built into the wall to float above the astroturf, filled with cosy sofas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This piece is loose woven using 6mm thick natural or artificial wicker which is painted in a colour to suit you. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had a kind of wicker hat on his head, and under it was a face that would have shamed a gorilla -- huge flat nose, pocked cheeks, little yellow eyes and big yellow teeth. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)

At the far end of the pool there was a = stairway leading from a wooden landing to a wicket (sic = C4 "wicker"?) door = set in the face of a cliff of grey stone that ran steeply down to the = pond's edge. ❋ Snow, Jack (1949)

One feature of the work here is a manual training school for natives, who manufacture the same kind of wicker chairs that the tourist buys at Madeira. ❋ Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1918)

Inside were their implements and utensils, such as wicker baskets (some of them filled with pineapples), gourds, fire-sticks, wooden knives, wooden mortars, and a board for grating mandioc, made of a thick slab of wood inset with sharp points of a harder wood. ❋ Unknown (1914)

All the buildings of the country are a kind of wicker work, remarkable for their neatness and regularity; and although slender, they appear to be strong and durable; nor did there appear any difference between the royal buildings and the other houses of the place, the square and courtyard excepted. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Attached to the tricycle by a stout rope was a kind of wicker perambulator on four wheels, which he called his "sleeping-car," because he stored away in it all the bits of rag he picked up on his journeys, and also his very primitive bedding and the little piece of waterproof canvas under which he often slept in the open air. ❋ Pierre Souvestre (1894)

The same people have also another kind of wicker-work granary, which looks like a huge cigar stuck point-downwards upon the top of a post four feet high. ❋ Various (1873)

This was not in itself a novel sight, and I was moving away when I was suddenly startled by the appearance of his hands, which were stretched helplessly before him on his body, and at first sight seemed to be in a kind of wicker cage. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

I think the women are meant to be carrying some kind of wicker or reed-bound water-vessel. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

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