wicker

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Along the same theme as the wicker waste basket, most hampers are metal or plastic or some combination of the two.

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  1. noun A flexible plant branch or twig, as of a willow, used in weaving baskets or furniture.
  2. noun Wickerwork.

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  • Are you ready to start for the wicker castle of Ugu the Shoemaker Quite ready, Your Majesty But who will rule in your place, while you are gone?" —  The Lost Princess of Oz
  • These two groups, however, were headed straight for the wicker castle and so Ugu began to plan how best to meet them and to defeat their efforts to conquer him Illustration More Surprises Illustration CHAPTER 20 All that first day after the union of the two parties our friends marched steadily toward the wicker castle of Ugu the Shoemaker. —  The Lost Princess of Oz
  • 2 Amos with the shepherd's hooked or knotted staff and wicker-worked bottle, before his tent. —  Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
  • In many parts of Africa the corn of the harvests is placed in closed baskets or wicker-work frames, and hung from the branches of trees. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • The natives of the Madi country, near the head of the Albert Nyanza, in Central Africa, make similar granaries of plastered wicker-work, which are supported upon four posts and have a thatched roof. —  Chatterbox, 1906
 

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  1. Middle English wiker, of Scandinavian origin; see weik-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial, wigger; from Middle English *wiker, wykyr; cf. Swedish dial, vikker, vekker, vekare, the sweet bay-leaved willow, = Danish dial, vögger, vegre, also vöge, a pliant rod, withy (vögre-kurv, vegre-kurv, wicker-basket), væger, vægger, a willow; cf. Bavarian dial, wickel, bunch of tow on a distaff, Germanwickel, a roll; ult. from AS.wīcan, etc., bend, yield: see wick and weak.
  2. from wicker, n.
  3. Cf. wicker.
 

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/ˈwɪkər/
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