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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wike \Wike\, n.
A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in
marking out or dividing anything as tithes, swaths to be
mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also {wicker}. [Prov.
Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wicker \Wick"er\, a.
Made of or covered with twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Each one a little wicker basket had Made of fine
twigs, entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wicker \Wick"er\, n. [OE. wiker, wikir osier, probably akin to
AS w[=i]can to give way Cf {Weak}.]
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork
and the like a withe.
2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese,
and in a press Of wicker pressed it --Chapman.
3. Same as 1st {Wike}. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wicker
n 1: slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or
some canes); used for wickerwork
2: something made of interlaced slender branches (especially
willow branches) [syn: {wickerwork}, {caning}]
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