Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The craft or process of making baskets or objects woven like baskets.
- noun Baskets and similar objects of interwoven material considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Basketwork or basketware; basket-making.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
weaving unspun vegetablefibers to make abasket . - noun
baskets collectively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the craft of basket making
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Page 246] lent by the Field Museum, and later by carefully selected specimens of basketry from the Philippines.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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(hint: take up crafts ... basketry is easy and engrossing!) +1 Good Comment?
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(hint: take up crafts ... basketry is easy and engrossing!) +1 Good Comment?
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These days the term 'basketry' can be applied to just about anything formed from a woven material ... and while the humble basket still exists, so too do more creative, and dramatic interpretations.
unknown title 2009
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On the starboard side of the bridge, tangled nests of steel basketry cast angular inky shadows.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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On the starboard side of the bridge, tangled nests of steel basketry cast angular inky shadows.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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In our case, one of our crops is basketry willow and our value added products are baskets.
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Throughout his years teaching, he created his own body of work and bamboo basketry became a serious avocation.
Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Jozan Sugita Steve Beimel 2011
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Its Mercado de Artesanías features ceramics, handmade amate paper, wicker basketry and all kinds of gemstones.
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Its Mercado de Artesanías features ceramics, handmade amate paper, wicker basketry and all kinds of gemstones.
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