Wikimore

See also: Wicker

English

Etymology

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#WICKER Category:English terms derived from Middle English#WICKER wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.

Noun

wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)Category:English lemmas#WICKER Category:English nouns#WICKER Category:English uncountable nouns#WICKER Category:English countable nouns#WICKER Category:English countable nouns#WICKER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WICKER Category:Pages with entries#WICKER Category:Pages with 2 entries#WICKER

A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
Wickerwork.
Synonym: (probably UK, dialectal) wick

wicker basket wicker cradleCategory:English terms with collocations#WICKER
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (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.
  The spelling has been modernized.
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Derived terms

wick (“basket made of wickers; wickers collectively; wickerwork”)Category:English links with manual fragments#WICKER
rewicker
wicker man
wickerwork

Translations

flexible branch or twig

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Arabic: خوصCategory:Terms with Arabic translations#WICKER
Assamese: কামি (kami)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#WICKER
Catalan: vímet (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WICKER
Chinese:
Mandarin: 篳 / 筚 (zh) (bì)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WICKER, 柳條 / 柳条 (zh) (liǔtiáo)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WICKER
Czech: virgule (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#WICKER
Dutch: teen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#WICKER, twijg (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#WICKER
Finnish: vitsa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WICKER
French: osier (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#WICKER
Galician: vime mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, vimbio (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, bringa fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, buíño mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, guineita fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, guimia fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, trogallo mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, brime mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER, ódega fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WICKER
German: Weide (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#WICKER
Greek: ψάθα (el) f (psátha)Category:Terms with Greek translations#WICKER
Hungarian: vessző (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WICKER, fűzfavessző (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WICKER
Ingrian: vitsaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#WICKER
Irish: caolach mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#WICKER
Italian: viminiCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WICKER
Japanese: 小枝 (ja) (こえだ, koeda)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WICKER, 籐 (ja) (とう, tō)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WICKER (esp. attributive)
Korean: 고리 (ko) (gori)Category:Terms with Korean translations#WICKER
Ladino: estera fCategory:Terms with Ladino translations#WICKER
Persian: ترکه (fa) (tarke)Category:Terms with Persian translations#WICKER
Polish: wiklina (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WICKER
Portuguese: vime (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WICKER, verga (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WICKER
Romanian: nuia (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#WICKER
Russian: прут (ru) m (prut)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WICKER, лоза́ (ru) f (lozá)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WICKER
Spanish: mimbre (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WICKER

wickerwork — see wickerwork

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Adjective

wicker (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#WICKER Category:English adjectives#WICKER Category:English uncomparable adjectives#WICKER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WICKER Category:Pages with entries#WICKER Category:Pages with 2 entries#WICKER

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.
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- 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.
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