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Wickerwork

noun
1.
Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).  Synonyms: caning, wicker.






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"Wickerwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... think, basket-boats. These are described in the text of Paes (below, p. 259) as being in use on these rivers in the sixteenth century, just as they are to-day. They are circular in shape, and are made of wickerwork of split bamboo covered all over outside with leather. Colonel Briggs, writing of these boats (Firishtah, ii. 371), in a footnote says, "A detachment of the British army crossed its heavy guns without even dismounting them over the ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell



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