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Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman.

Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather. Milton.

A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

rated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman.

de by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]

A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass Hudibras.

e, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.

A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.