wicker-work
Example Sentences
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It was an elderly woman, richly dressed, with a wicker-work picnic basket in her hand.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan
The same objection lies against hampers, with the additional one of the wicker-work admitting the cold in variable weather, during winter or early spring sittings.
From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh
Nance, prying for other details, had found and pieced together a few torn scraps of paper—the remains of a letter—stuck between the braided wicker-work and ribbon of a waste-paper basket in the directress's study.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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
Sciath, sī′ath, n. an oblong shield of wicker-work formerly used in Ireland.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
