wicker
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English
Etymology
From Middle English wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪkə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) enPR: wĭkʹər, IPA(key): /ˈwɪkɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
- Homophone: whicker (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
- Homophone: Wicca (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun
wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)
- A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
- Wickerwork.
- wicker basket
- wicker cradle
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:
- Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.
Derived terms
Translations
flexible branch or twig
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wickerwork — see wickerwork
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See also
Adjective
wicker (not comparable)
- Made of wickerwork.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
- He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
Translations
made of wickerwork
Further reading
Middle English
Adjective
wicker