basketwork

American  

[bas-kit-wurk, bah-skit-] / ˈbæs kɪtˌwɜrk, ˈbɑ skɪt- /

noun

1. objects, textiles, etc., made or woven in the manner of a basket; basketry; wickerwork; interwoven work.

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basketwork British  

/ ˈbɑːskɪtˌwɜːk /

noun

1. another word for wickerwork

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Etymology

Origin of basketwork

First recorded in 1760–70; basket + work

Example Sentences

The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Connected with the basketwork posteriorly is a remarkable cup-shaped cartilage, which supports the hind wall of the pericardium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

The basketwork boats mentioned by Herodotus as being used on the Tigris and Euphrates were round and covered with bitumen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

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