wicker

Noun
Synonyms: wickerworkcaning

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  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)Synonyms: wickerworkcaning
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]
Wicker \Wick"er\, n. [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to AS. w[imac]can to give way. Cf. Weak.] [1913 Webster]

1.A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. [1913 Webster]

2.Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. [1913 Webster]

Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

3.Same as 1st Wike. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Wicker \Wick"er\, a. Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork. [1913 Webster]

Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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