WICKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wicker mean? 

• WICKER (noun)
  The noun WICKER has 2 senses:

1. slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork

2. work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

  Familiarity information: WICKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WICKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("wicker" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

caning; wicker; wickerwork

Hypernyms ("wicker" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

 Context examples 

The older man sat in that wicker chair; it was he who used the cigar-holder.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They reeled about the room, locked in each other's arms, and came down with a crash across the splintered wreckage of a wicker chair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s methods to be able to follow his reasoning, and to see that the nature and state of the various medical instruments in the wicker basket which hung in the lamplight inside the brougham had given him the data for his swift deduction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In its deep gloom we sat down side by side on a wicker settee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)