'Wicker' definitions:
Definition of 'wicker'
(from WordNet)
noun
Slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
noun
Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: wicker, wickerwork, caning]
Definition of 'Wicker'
From: GCIDE
- Wicker \Wick"er\, a. Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork. [1913 Webster]
- Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wicker'
From: GCIDE
- Wicker \Wick"er\, n. [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to AS. w[imac]can to give way. Cf. Weak.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. [1913 Webster]
- Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Same as 1st Wike. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'wicker'
From: GCIDE
- Wike \Wike\, n. A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]