wickern.

Brit.

/ˈwɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈwɪkər/

Forms: Middle English wyker, Middle English–1500s wekir, 1500s–1600s wycker, (Middle English wikre, wikir, wykyr, qwykyr, wekker, 1500s wycre, wykir, wykur, wiker, wikker, wykkyr, wickar, wickir, 1600s wykker), Middle English– wicker.

Etymology: East Scandinavian (Middle Swedish and Swedish dialect viker , early Danish viger , Danish dialect vigger willow, osier, branch of willow); < root of Swedish vika to bend (compare Old English wícan to give way, collapse, and weak adj., woke adj.¹).

a. A pliant twig or small rod, usually of willow, esp. as used for making baskets and various other objects; an osier; a withe. Chiefly in plural (= sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of

osierc1175

wanda1300

persha1398

withya1400

wicker14..

winding1405

withe1465

yedder1512

writhe1552

writh1810

skein1837

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 717/25 Hoc vimen, -nis, qwykyr.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 23385 Whan the smale wikres brak, The hopes wenten al to wrak.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxxviii. sig. mmviii/2 Suche vessels were fyrste made of tree & of wykers [a1398 BL Add. perisch]: as panyers, baskettes.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 My hert that neuir wes sicir..Thought I wald bynd it with a wicir.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Bv^v The sayles were made of greate russhes or of wyckers, and in some places of lether.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 861/2 Great images of wickers..made like great men of diuerse strange nations.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 58 In our Country, the Hives principally in use, are either made of wickers, or of straw.

1807 G. Crabbe Sir Eustace Grey in Poems 228 And Stones erect, their Shadows shed, On humble Graves, with Wickers bound.

1811 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 33 The wickers of the [lobster] pots.

1899 P. Kropotkin Mem. of Revolutionist II. iv. ix. 70 To ply the wickers and to shape them into an elegant basket.

b. Such a twig or small branch, as part of the living plant. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender

rodc1275

wanda1300

wicker?1507

whip1585

switch1616

sway1630

withe1817

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 As with the wynd wavis the wickir.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Esparto Wicker, a kinde of tree whereof they make frailes.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 809 Flickering, feeble, and unsicker.., Ay wavering like the willow wicker.

c. A twig or small branch used as a mark. local.

ΚΠ

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Wicker, a mark used in setting out tithes; generally a small branch of a tree [Wike].

2. (without plural) Wickers collectively, or as plaited together; wickerwork.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of > collectively

wicker1336

osiery1742

withy1833

1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 356 Et stramen, ‘wekirr’ et ‘tempil’ pro coopertura domorum.

1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 356 In empcione..de ‘wekir’ et ‘tempil’ per vices xij d.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccxxvii/1 His vessell wherin he weted his wekker & roddes for to make withall panyers maundes & baskettes.

1552–3 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 112 iiij^or hampers of wicker to put in thapparrell.

1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 Sched. at Bottles Bottles of Glass covered w^th Wicker.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 709 Youths and maidens blithe In frails of wicker bore the luscious fruit.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxi. 203 Shields of wood or wicker, whitened over, were substituted by some for metal armour.

3. A basket, cradle, chair, etc. of wicker.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]

teanela700

windlec725

spertc975

kipec1000

leapc1000

willyc1000

basketa1300

coopa1300

hoppera1300

ripc1300

skepc1340

coffinc1380

criba1387

skippetc1450

corfc1483

wisket1542

prickle1543

cleave1577

serpet1615

wicker1646

bascaud1647

shapeta1657

fender1682

canister1697

kist1724

calathus1753

voider1788

wick1802

skip1816

maeshie1822

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle

cradlec1000

cader?c1225

crete1340

cunablesa1549

rocker1566

wicker1646

crib1649

cather?1748

cunabula1774

cot1813

co-sleeper1997

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle > wicker

wicker1646

bassinet1855

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > cane or wicker chair

basket chaira1631

wand-chair1680

cane-chair1696

wicker1740

Madeira chair1885

1646 R. Codrington Life & Death Illustrious Earle of Essex 2 To omit the presages..of the promising Madams who rocked his Cradle, I will not say, that in that moving wicker (like another Hercules) hee strangled in each hand the two invading Dragons of transcending Prerogative and Superstition.

1699 L. Meager New Art of Gardening 40 The Orange-trees..are so tender, that they must be planted in Pots, Wickers, or Wooden Troughs.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 329 By that illustrious Wicker, where they sate In comely Pride.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 Each having a white wicker over brimm'd With April's tender younglings.

1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 137 Huge wickers of eggs.

a. attributive. Made or consisting of wicker, as a basket, chair, etc.; also, covered with or encased in wicker, as a bottle. See also wickerwork n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > willow > made of wickerwork

wicker1502

twiggen1549

wanded1567

twigged1643

vimineous1657

twiggy1664

wickereda1749

wickerworked1900

kilta1927

1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 84 Twoo wycre bottelles.

1523–4 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 322 ij yerdys of wykur matt.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 358 The..valliaunt warriour, was once wrapped in swathling clowtes, and lay crying in a wicker cradle.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1315/2 Pendents made of wicker rods.

1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion ii. sig. A2^v A Flocke of Nymphes..And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs.

1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 515/2 Ilk hundreth wykker sparris..2 penneis.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K2 A wicker cage tames a nightingale.

1619 Depos. Bk. Archdeac. Essex & Colch. lf. 98 (MS.) We found the said Testatrix sitting in a wicker chayer by the fyer side.

1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata 105 In sacrificing of Men to their Idols, in a Wicker Image.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 203 Wicker-hives made of Privet, Willow, or Harl.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 85 Twigs that would bend to make Wicker Ware.

1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 329 A wicker basket of palm twigs.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii*. 300 Gabriel Grub..drew forth his wicker bottle.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. lii. 203 The wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in.

b. wicker wings n. attributed to various sinister creatures.The source of the allusion is unascertained; connection with the passage translated in quot. 1837 for wicker-winged adj. at Compounds 1 below is improbable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > wing(s) of

wingc1175

shears1590

winglet1611

wicker wingsa1637

pennon1667

van1667

the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl) > wings of

wicker wingsa1637

a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. v. 62 in Wks. (1640) III Harke, harke, harke the foule Bird [sc. the screech-owl]! how shee flutters with her wicker wings !

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 414 The Fury..on her wicker Wings, sublime through Night, She to the Latian Palace took her Flight.

1720 W. Congreve Impossible Thing 6 The Goblin plys his wicker Wings.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

wicker-bottomed adj.

ΚΠ

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xiv. 268 In the large wicker-bottomed arm-chair..sat old Martin Poyser.

wicker-cased adj.

ΚΠ

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 89 A goodly wicker-cased bottle.

wicker-covered adj.

ΚΠ

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 257 A wicker-covered flask.

wicker-weaving adj.

ΚΠ

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Feb. 205/1 A wicker-weaving loom.

wicker-winged adj.

ΚΠ

1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Birds I. 248 Wicker-wing'd Diitrephes [Διιτρέϕης γε πυτιναῖα μόνον ἔχων πτερά].

wicker-woven adj.

ΚΠ

1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson v. 168 The wicker-woven box.

C2.

wicker-wise adv.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xii. xiv. 367 A quilt or mat made of Date-tree twigs, plaited and wound one within another wicker-wise.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wicker
释义	wickern. Brit. /ˈwɪkə/, U.S. /ˈwɪkər/ Forms: Middle English wyker, Middle English–1500s wekir, 1500s–1600s wycker, (Middle English wikre, wikir, wykyr, qwykyr, wekker, 1500s wycre, wykir, wykur, wiker, wikker, wykkyr, wickar, wickir, 1600s wykker), Middle English– wicker. Etymology: East Scandinavian (Middle Swedish and Swedish dialect viker , early Danish viger , Danish dialect vigger willow, osier, branch of willow); < root of Swedish vika to bend (compare Old English wícan to give way, collapse, and weak adj., woke adj.¹). 1. a. A pliant twig or small rod, usually of willow, esp. as used for making baskets and various other objects; an osier; a withe. Chiefly in plural (= sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of osierc1175 wanda1300 persha1398 withya1400 wicker14.. winding1405 withe1465 yedder1512 writhe1552 writh1810 skein1837 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 717/25 Hoc vimen, -nis, qwykyr. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 23385 Whan the smale wikres brak, The hopes wenten al to wrak. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxxviii. sig. mmviii/2 Suche vessels were fyrste made of tree & of wykers [a1398 BL Add. perisch]: as panyers, baskettes. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 My hert that neuir wes sicir..Thought I wald bynd it with a wicir. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Bv^v The sayles were made of greate russhes or of wyckers, and in some places of lether. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 861/2 Great images of wickers..made like great men of diuerse strange nations. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 58 In our Country, the Hives principally in use, are either made of wickers, or of straw. 1807 G. Crabbe Sir Eustace Grey in Poems 228 And Stones erect, their Shadows shed, On humble Graves, with Wickers bound. 1811 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 33 The wickers of the [lobster] pots. 1899 P. Kropotkin Mem. of Revolutionist II. iv. ix. 70 To ply the wickers and to shape them into an elegant basket. b. Such a twig or small branch, as part of the living plant. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender rodc1275 wanda1300 wicker?1507 whip1585 switch1616 sway1630 withe1817 ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 As with the wynd wavis the wickir. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Esparto Wicker, a kinde of tree whereof they make frailes. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 809 Flickering, feeble, and unsicker.., Ay wavering like the willow wicker. c. A twig or small branch used as a mark. local. ΚΠ 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Wicker, a mark used in setting out tithes; generally a small branch of a tree [Wike]. 2. (without plural) Wickers collectively, or as plaited together; wickerwork. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of > collectively wicker1336 osiery1742 withy1833 1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 356 Et stramen, ‘wekirr’ et ‘tempil’ pro coopertura domorum. 1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 356 In empcione..de ‘wekir’ et ‘tempil’ per vices xij d. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccxxvii/1 His vessell wherin he weted his wekker & roddes for to make withall panyers maundes & baskettes. 1552–3 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 112 iiij^or hampers of wicker to put in thapparrell. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 Sched. at Bottles Bottles of Glass covered w^th Wicker. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 709 Youths and maidens blithe In frails of wicker bore the luscious fruit. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxi. 203 Shields of wood or wicker, whitened over, were substituted by some for metal armour. 3. A basket, cradle, chair, etc. of wicker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] teanela700 windlec725 spertc975 kipec1000 leapc1000 willyc1000 basketa1300 coopa1300 hoppera1300 ripc1300 skepc1340 coffinc1380 criba1387 skippetc1450 corfc1483 wisket1542 prickle1543 cleave1577 serpet1615 wicker1646 bascaud1647 shapeta1657 fender1682 canister1697 kist1724 calathus1753 voider1788 wick1802 skip1816 maeshie1822 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle cradlec1000 cader?c1225 crete1340 cunablesa1549 rocker1566 wicker1646 crib1649 cather?1748 cunabula1774 cot1813 co-sleeper1997 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle > wicker wicker1646 bassinet1855 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > cane or wicker chair basket chaira1631 wand-chair1680 cane-chair1696 wicker1740 Madeira chair1885 1646 R. Codrington Life & Death Illustrious Earle of Essex 2 To omit the presages..of the promising Madams who rocked his Cradle, I will not say, that in that moving wicker (like another Hercules) hee strangled in each hand the two invading Dragons of transcending Prerogative and Superstition. 1699 L. Meager New Art of Gardening 40 The Orange-trees..are so tender, that they must be planted in Pots, Wickers, or Wooden Troughs. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 329 By that illustrious Wicker, where they sate In comely Pride. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 Each having a white wicker over brimm'd With April's tender younglings. 1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 137 Huge wickers of eggs. 4. a. attributive. Made or consisting of wicker, as a basket, chair, etc.; also, covered with or encased in wicker, as a bottle. See also wickerwork n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > willow > made of wickerwork wicker1502 twiggen1549 wanded1567 twigged1643 vimineous1657 twiggy1664 wickereda1749 wickerworked1900 kilta1927 1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 84 Twoo wycre bottelles. 1523–4 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 322 ij yerdys of wykur matt. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 358 The..valliaunt warriour, was once wrapped in swathling clowtes, and lay crying in a wicker cradle. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1315/2 Pendents made of wicker rods. 1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion ii. sig. A2^v A Flocke of Nymphes..And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs. 1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 515/2 Ilk hundreth wykker sparris..2 penneis. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K2 A wicker cage tames a nightingale. 1619 Depos. Bk. Archdeac. Essex & Colch. lf. 98 (MS.) We found the said Testatrix sitting in a wicker chayer by the fyer side. 1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata 105 In sacrificing of Men to their Idols, in a Wicker Image. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 203 Wicker-hives made of Privet, Willow, or Harl. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 85 Twigs that would bend to make Wicker Ware. 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 329 A wicker basket of palm twigs. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 300 Gabriel Grub..drew forth his wicker bottle. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles* III. lii. 203 The wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in. b. wicker wings n. attributed to various sinister creatures.The source of the allusion is unascertained; connection with the passage translated in quot. 1837 for wicker-winged adj. at Compounds 1 below is improbable. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > wing(s) of wingc1175 shears1590 winglet1611 wicker wingsa1637 pennon1667 van1667 the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl) > wings of wicker wingsa1637 a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. v. 62 in Wks. (1640) III Harke, harke, harke the foule Bird [sc. the screech-owl]! how shee flutters with her wicker wings ! View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 414 The Fury..on her wicker Wings, sublime through Night, She to the Latian Palace took her Flight. 1720 W. Congreve Impossible Thing 6 The Goblin plys his wicker Wings. Compounds C1. General attributive. wicker-bottomed adj. ΚΠ 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xiv. 268 In the large wicker-bottomed arm-chair..sat old Martin Poyser. wicker-cased adj. ΚΠ 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 89 A goodly wicker-cased bottle. wicker-covered adj. ΚΠ 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 257 A wicker-covered flask. wicker-weaving adj. ΚΠ 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Feb. 205/1 A wicker-weaving loom. wicker-winged adj. ΚΠ 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Birds I. 248 Wicker-wing'd Diitrephes [Διιτρέϕης γε πυτιναῖα μόνον ἔχων πτερά]. wicker-woven adj. ΚΠ 1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson v. 168 The wicker-woven box. C2. wicker-wise adv. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xii. xiv. 367 A quilt or mat made of Date-tree twigs, plaited and wound one within another wicker-wise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wickerv. Brit. /ˈwɪkə/, U.S. /ˈwɪkər/ Etymology: < wicker n. transitive. To furnish, fit, cover, or enclose with wicker. (Chiefly in past participle: see also wickered adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > basket-making > furnish with wicker wicker1600 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. ii. sig. Div A mustie Bottle, new wickerd . View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 49 Thir Ships of light timber wickerd with Oysier betweene, and coverd over with Leather. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 275/2 Upon this [sc. a surface of dry moss], hurdles..wickered with heath, were laid. 1882 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs xii High frames made by planting four bamboos in a square and wickering the top. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1336v.1600
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Compounds

wickerv.