basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
Example Sentences
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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
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 Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
Grain was stored in concealed pits in the earth which were lined with drystone or basketwork or clay and made airtight by sealing with clay or dung.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by Reilly, S. A.
One could see structures covered with turf, looking like lumps of mother earth, tents made of sail cloth, huts of bare boards, huts of brick and stone, some having doors and windows of wattled basketwork.
From Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence by Wrong, George McKinnon
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