单词 | wickerwork |
释义 | wickerworkn. Work consisting of wickers; a structure of flexible twigs, osiers, or the like plaited together; basket-work. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry wickerwork1719 basket-work1769 basketry1851 randing1903 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 294 We fell to Work to make more Wicker Work. 1780 W. Cowper Fable 3 A raven..on her wicker-work high mounted Her chickens prematurely counted. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xiv. 214 The houses of Sardis were chiefly of wicker-work. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. ii. 24 Every plank and timber creaked, as if the ship were made of wicker-work. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 622 Those rude coracles of wickerwork covered with the skins of horses, in which the Celtic peasantry fished for trout and salmon. Derivatives ˈwickerworked adj. /-wɜːkt/ made of or enclosed in wickerwork. 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 1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 66 A big old wicker-worked demijohn. ˈwickerworker n. one who makes wickerwork. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > manufacture of fabric from specific materials > manufacture of articles made from twigs, etc. > one who makes other articles from twigs, etc. cane-worker1858 wickerworker?1881 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 80 Basket maker... Wicker Worker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1719 |
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