FromMiddle Englishwiker, cognate withSwedishvikker(“willow”),Old Norseveikr(“weak”),Englishweak.
wicker (countable anduncountable,pluralwickers)
- Aflexiblebranch ortwig of aplant such aswillow, used inweavingbaskets andfurniture.
- Wickerwork.
- wicker basket
- wicker cradle
1614–1615,Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, inGeo[rge] Chapman, transl.,Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [andWilliam Jaggard], forNathaniell Butter, published1615,→OCLC; republished inThe 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 / Ofwicker pressed it.- The spelling has been modernized.
flexible branch or twig
- Assamese:কামি(kami)
- Catalan:vímet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:柳條 /柳条 (zh)(liǔtiáo),篳 /筚 (zh)(bì)
- Czech:virgule (cs) f
- Dutch:teen (nl),twijg (nl)
- Finnish:vitsa (fi)
- French:osier (fr) m
- Galician:vime m,vimbio (gl) m,bringa f,buíño m,guineita f,guimia f,trogallo m,brime m,ódega f
- German:Weide (de) f
- Greek:ψάθα (el) f(psátha)
- Hungarian:vessző (hu),fűzfavessző (hu)
- Ingrian:vitsa
- Irish:caolach m
- Italian:vimini
- Japanese:小枝 (ja)(こえだ, koeda),籐 (ja)(とう, tō)(esp. attributive)
- Korean:고리 (ko)(gori)
- Ladino:estera f
- Persian:ترکه (fa)(tarke)
- Polish:wiklina (pl) f
- Portuguese:vime (pt) m,verga (pt) f
- Romanian:nuia (ro) f
- Russian:прут (ru) m(prut),лоза́ (ru) f(lozá)
- Spanish:mimbre (es) m
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wicker (notcomparable)
- Made ofwickerwork.
1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and twowicker 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, inCrime out of Mind[1]:He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into hiswicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
wicker
- comparative degree ofwikke