Wickers

At each, small groups or couples talked noisily and ate egg sandwiches as waiters ran between wickers. ❋ Gill, A. A. (2008)

To light up the wickers of those people whose light has been extinguished. ❋ Yanxious (2005)

Moreouer, they make certaine fouresquare baskets of small slender wickers as big as great chestes: and afterward, from one side to another, they frame an hollow lidde or couer of such like wickers, and make a doore in the fore side thereof. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their houses are made of wickers, and withes, wrought aboute trees, moch like vnto those that we calle frankencence trees, and in suche sorte that they may tourne them rounde euery waye. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their habitations bee rounde and cunningly made with wickers and staues in manner of a tent. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their houses wherein they sleepe, they ground vpon a round foundation of wickers artificially wrought and compacted together: the roofe whereof consisteth (in like sorte) of wickers, meeting aboue into one little roundell, out of which roundell ascendeth a necke like vnto ❋ Unknown (2004)

They haue targets made of wickers, or of small reddes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of the same also Solinus speaketh, so far as I remember: nevertheless it may be gathered from his words how the upper parts of them above the water only were framed of the said wickers, and that the Britons did use to fast all the whiles they went to the sea in them; but whether it were done for policy or superstition, as yet I do not read. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

We made rough cots with wickers and slabs, raised a foot above the ground, so as to form seats as well as beds, and covered them with a thick layer of minuka branches, which made capital springy mattresses, and over all we laid our blankets. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

Over this enclosure we made a sloping framework of wickers (fine saplings) and covered it with an old tent which Metcalfe possessed. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

The sails were made of great rushes, or of wickers, and in some places, of leather. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Lay in the trusty guard of wickers woven in withies. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)

This space, so divided off, is the sleeping-place, where there is a raised bench of mud, or a bedstead made of cane or wickers. ❋ James Richardson (1828)

They have very Curious breastplates, made of small wickers, pieces of Matting, etc., and neatly Cover'd with Sharks 'teeth, Pearl Oyster shells, birds' feathers, and dogs 'hair. ❋ James Cook (1753)

After having addressed each other, thus incomprehensibly for a long time, I was carried to a small hut, formed of wickers intricately twisted. ❋ Ludvig Holberg (1719)