basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
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On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the basketwork was cleverly woven in beautiful patterns, marked out and dyed with the juice of coloured berries and seaweed.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
A basketwork boat covered with skin and caulked was used in Egypt and Sumeria from the beginnings of our knowledge.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The boy took the glass to a big stone filter covered with basketwork, and filled the measure to the brim.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
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