basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
Example Sentences
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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
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
In an adult river lamprey the basketwork consists on each side of a series of eight vertical half-hoops of cartilage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
He had been stripped of all clothing save a pair of short breeches, reaching a little below the knee, and his naked feet rested on a curious piece of basketwork.
From The Madman and the Pirate by Twidle, Arthur
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