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Definition of wicker:

  • (noun) slender flexible branches or twigs
  • (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

Sentence Examples:

There is little furniture, but all use low wooden chairs or wicker stools to sit upon.

They brought the wicker trunk also, and then carried box and trunk inside the tent.

Then he produced a big bottle from his wicker trunk.

He strove to penetrate its wicker exterior with concentrated gaze.

The wicker armchair was the most substantial thing about her person.

She was leaning back in the great wicker chair.

He dropped into a wicker chair and fanned vigorously with his hat.

When they reached the cabin he brought out a wicker chair and put it in the shade.

Then came Winona with the suitcase, which was of wicker.

Wilbur, with his wicker suitcase, paused last to say goodbye to Frank, the dog.

They had no rifles, but each man carried a sort of wicker basket filled with bombs.

They were armed with long wicker shields and lances.

There were arrows and wicker shields also, and the huge wooden shields of the Egyptians.

And when all was finished, and wicker seats made, it did look a cozy little hut indeed.

Two or three women drinking tea from the wicker train baskets supplied at the junction.

The natives catch them by billions in wickers and sell them to the caravans.

Stephens was carrying over the coffee and placing it on the wicker table beside them.

He drew a cushioned wicker chair close to the fire.

Raising her wicker basket higher she half turned her head.

She lay back in the wicker chair, scarcely breathing.

The seat of my chair is of wicker.

Kate was sitting in a wicker chair by the window, arranging flowers in a vase.

And while they waited for tea, Evelyn lay back in a wicker chair thinking.

The floor was covered with the usual wicker mats.

It's a wicker chair and a 'high one,' and peaceful and improving cards for ours.

He paused, grew very serious, and bent forward in his wicker chair.

In this cold but clear light he saw seated in the wicker chair the figure of a man.

I jerked my knife from the wicker and turned to face this new enemy.

It was a wicker chair, with wicker-latticed sides extending clear to the floor.

She put her hand wearily on the back of a white wicker chair.

Keep your wicker furniture on the porch, for which it was intended.

One day no song came up from the little wicker cage.

They carried a jar and two wicker baskets.

It was thirty-two paces in diameter, divided by wicker work into different rooms.

He found he could carry it easily, for it was as light as a wicker basket.

Price was feeling better and said that she would sit up to supper in her wicker armchair.

Shaw said, and Patience got slowly out of her big, wicker armchair.

She asked, as she drew forward a comfortable wicker chair with a soft padded seat.

They had large wicker shields, and bore their quivers suspended at their backs.

She offered him wine from a wicker jug.

Harry and Julia were standing near the wicker chairs watching the welcome.

These were made of wicker, and varied in shape on different occasions.

You must take that wicker chair and throw away as many cushions as you like.

The wicker chair was close beside the table, and she sat down.

There were bins along the walls, some partly full of oranges, and piles of wicker baskets.

She regarded him curiously from the depths of her wicker chair.

There was a desk, much like the ones in the classrooms, and six or seven wicker armchairs.

She bent to pick up the wicker basket, her small face white and hard.

As she seated herself in a wicker chair Abe approached with his hat in his hand.

Judith sprang eagerly from the wicker chair in which she had been lounging.

I stooped and took out from it a wicker basket.

He opened the wicker basket, sniffing at the contents.

Two men were lounging comfortably in wide wicker chairs on the veranda.

Green be denied any other carriage than the wicker car of his balloon?

I was lying on the wicker couch.

Large wicker and pitch water bottle.

Small water bottle of wicker work.

Large water bottle of wicker work and pitch for carrying water.

Large wicker work water vessel for use in traveling.

I sat back in the low wicker chair and surveyed the hallway.

He was back again, erect and smiling, a small wicker basket balanced on his paws.

They are generally of wicker work, plastered within with mud.

The sides and ends slope outward, and the basket is open wicker work.

This process repeated makes the wicker-like pattern so frequently seen in gold work.

He followed her upstairs and into a room filled with flowers and wicker chairs.

She was seated in one of the wicker chairs, chin in hand.

Then she threw herself into a wicker chair and began to sob.

Sid kicked against the wicker seat cushion in front of him and was silent.

She tried the little wicker chairs one after another.

A big grass rug was spread there, and there was a little porch swing and a wicker table.

Asked Helen, sinking down in one of the wicker chairs.

Around the table were several small chairs, made of wicker.

From this framework was suspended a wicker basket or car.

It is formed of a light wicker, and is wonderfully strong, for so frail looking a machine.

Stephens was carrying over the coffee and placing it on the wicker-table beside them.

They sat facing each other in two of the wicker chairs.

The car is made of wicker work, and is as elastic as a ball.

It seems by his profession he was a wicker bottle maker.

The man in the wicker chair was looking at them, a half smile on his lips.

He sprang into the wicker cage of the lift as it bumped upon the ledge.

It was of brown wicker with brown cushions.

Her dusky head was leaning wearily against the back of a wicker porch chair.

Pascal had a wicker cage partly full of them, and used it as a lantern.

There was also a large wicker thing shaped like the arc of a circle.

The other youth dropped back into a wicker chair.

Pigeons will fly across wide spaces and drop down to the wicker cage that awaits them.

For once the wicker walls of a bamboo house had a merit all their own.

Small wicker baskets were near to receive the change.

No, I know; they used to make a great wicker idol, and put them in and burn them.

He had not waited long when the wicker basket again floated down.

Then she put the plate on a little wicker table over near the end of the porch.

He said, as he pushed forward one of the two wicker chairs.

She sat down in one of the cozy wicker chairs and buried her face in her hands.

"They have slain Sir John," said the little page, "And his head in this wicker cast."

I held his wicker cage against the glass case.

She added, dropping into one of the big wicker chairs near her.

If the wicker work had not been very strong the cage would not have held me.

He demanded as he joined me at the little wicker table.

The projecting quarters held in clutch a large wicker basket like the car of a balloon.

Douglass, and as she spoke she gripped at the back of the wicker chair.