wicker-work
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Demi-john, dem′i-jon, n. a glass bottle with a full body and narrow neck, enclosed in wicker-work.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Even then the wicker-work ornament was retained, as a sort of attest of its origin.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
Along the bottom of the wall ran a continuous fire-step, some two feet in height, and a line of wicker-work loop-holes pierced it near the top.
From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.
The weird object which then impressed itself upon my memory forever was a dead Indian sitting upright in a sort of wicker-work coffin which was secured by thongs to the main trunk of the tree.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
The beautiful yellow wicker-work is usually stained in alternate squares of so black a colour that the walls of a Javanese hut resemble nothing so much as a gigantic draught-board.
