[
US
/ˈwɪkɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)
- slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
How To Use wicker In A Sentence
- Eleanor, out walking, wheeling the wicker perambulator in the sharp October sunshine. THE GOLDEN LION
- We simply do not have the space for well-organised drills of vegetables that lead to a wicker gate opening out onto a woodland meadow.
- The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
- The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
- The toboggan consists of a wide wicker basket with a cushioned seat, set on wooden runners.
- From here on my wicker chair it seems incredible that just short decades ago this garden was a dust-bowl, a sterile desert.
- The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.
- In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
- A wicker basket, especially one used by anglers for carrying fish.
- Perhaps nothing can bring about racial equality, Wicker notes grimly.