wickered

• “Three hundred years ago the British scientist Thomas Harriot wrote, “Those weapons that they have, are onlie bowes made of Witch hazle, and arrows of reeds; neither have they anything to defend themselves but targets made of barcks; and some armours made of sticks wickered together with thread.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set

• “The woman who was the wickered Queen in disgust cackled away to her carstle in the hills larfing fit to bust.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Spaniard in the Works

• “The woman (who was the wickered Queen in disgust) cackled away to her carstle in the hills larfing fit to bust.”

  A Spaniard In The Works

• “His foot touched the wickered jug and he called Jean Saville.”

  The Maid of the Whispering Hills

• “There was a general laugh at this sally, in which the tall forman joined; and with that we saw a lad bringing out a little table into the shadow of the stone-shed, which he set down there, and then going back, came out again with the inevitable big wickered flask and tall glasses, whereon the foreman led us up to due seats on blocks of stone, and said:”

  News from Nowhere

• “There was a general laugh at this sally, in which the tall foreman joined; and with that we saw a lad bringing out a little table into the shadow of the stone-shed, which he set down there, and then going back, came out again with the inevitable big wickered flask and tall glasses, whereon the foreman led us up to due seats on blocks of stone, and said:”

  News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription]

• “He hurried between the barn and the ranch house, carrying now a wickered demijohn, now a case of wine, now”

  The Octopus : A story of California

• “The whole is wickered together with vines, or woven together basketwise, and partitioned in the same way, by means of coloured curtains of cotton cloth.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852

• “The Indians on the frontiers generally use a bath which will accommodate only one person, and is formed of a wickered work of willows about four feet high, arched at the top, and covered with skins.”

  History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean

• “Witch-hazle, and arrowes of reedes, flat edged truncheons also of wood about a yard long, neither haue they any thing to defend themselues but targets made of barkes, and some armours made of sticks wickered together with thread.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.

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