Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wicker"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wicker \Wick"er\, a.
Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine
twigs, entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wicker \Wick"er\, n. [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to
AS. w[=i]can to give way. Cf. {Weak}.]
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork
and the like; a withe.
2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese,
and in a press Of wicker pressed it. --Chapman.
3. Same as 1st {Wike}. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wicker
n 1: slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or
some canes); used for wickerwork
2: work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow
branches) [syn: {wickerwork}, {caning}]
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