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
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.
Then they filled the interstices with "wattle-and-daub," a basketwork of branches, twigs, and roots, coated on both sides with loam and lime, mixed with straw.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony.
From The Good Soldier by Ford, Ford Madox
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