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How to pronounce wicker in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms caning, wickerwork
Type of piece of work, work
Type Words
Type of wood

Examples of wicker

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There are summer baskets, wicker chairs, lamps, candles, pottery, and even beds.
From the boston.com
Think arbors, big hanging baskets, window boxes, porch swings, wicker furniture.
From the buffalonews.com
There were even a few families perambulating their babies about in wicker prams.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Lined wicker baskets or picnic hampers can all be filled with treasures as well.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Wicker was appointed to the Senate in 2007 before winning a full term last year.
From the newsday.com
Unique textile fragments, wicker baskets and wooden sword handles have survived.
From the guardian.co.uk
I had seen the Fuehrer alive that morning sitting in his favourite wicker chair.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
I keep the folded stack in a pretty little wicker basket next to my kitchen sink.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Wicker declined to comment and Ison could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
From the courier-journal.com
More examples
  • Slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
  • Wicker is hard woven fiber formed into a rigid material, usually used for baskets or furniture. Wicker is often made of material of plant origin, but plastic fibers are also used.
  • Cast of Shadows is a 2005 suspense novel by the American writer Kevin Guilfoile. It was published in the United Kingdom under the title Wicker.
  • The Wicker is an arterial street in Sheffield, England, noted for its history and the Grade II* listed Wicker Arches viaduct that crosses it. It runs in a north-east to south-westerly direction between Lady's Bridge and Wicker Arches. ...
  • A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture; Wickerwork
  • Strong woven matting of willow, reed, or rattan cut into different diameters and used to construct furniture, often for outdoor use.
  • Hard fibres woven into a useful object such as a basket. The fibres are often pliable twigs, usually willow
  • Term that describes furniture or household accessories made by weaving coarse fibers such as rattan (most common), raffia, buri and many dried grasses together around a frame. Bark is stripped and material passed through a machine to obtain wicker of varying sizes.
  • Term given to furnishings woven from willow, reed and rattan.