wicker-work

These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre.

Sole Music 2010

Now every plank and timber creaked, as if the ship were made of wicker-work; and now crackled, like an enormous fire of the driest possible twigs.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Then he wove sandals with wicker-work by the sand of the sea, wonderful things, unthought of, unimagined; for he mixed together tamarisk and myrtle-twigs, fastening together an armful of their fresh, young wood, and tied them, leaves and all securely under his feet as light sandals.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Some had to be content with shields of wood, others of wicker-work, which they spent their time in coating with whitening.

Hellenica 2007

He drew up on shore under the fort the three triremes remaining8 to him out of the five which had not gone on to Corcyra, and protected them by a stockade; their crews he armed with shields, but of a poor sort, most of them made of wicker-work.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The Prince was in his own cabin, the end room of the airship, a charming apartment furnished in wicker-work with a long window across its entire breadth, looking forward.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The car was of brown coarse wicker-work, and comparatively small.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

At each tug he drew in a yard or so of rope, and the waggling wicker-work was drawn so much nearer.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

But the trailer could not be detached; its wicker-work had caught, and it was the last thing to burn.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The petrol burnt low, the wicker-work trailer banged and crackled.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006