Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of wicker.
- Covered with wickerwork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork.
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- adjective Composed of or covered by wickerwork or wickers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.”
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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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 John Lennon 2000
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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 Lennon, John, 1940-1980 1965
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His foot touched the wickered jug and he called Jean Saville.
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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 1892
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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] 1890
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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 Frank Norris 1886
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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 : being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris 1865
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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 Various 1841
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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.
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