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Wicker basket

noun

A basket made of wickerwork.

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"Wicker basket" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rex, taking him toward a wicker basket, which he hated. "Solitary confinement for ...

— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers

... out of the fog carrying a rectangular wicker basket. Bolden was depressed when he saw it. One gift in return for goggles, carbines, ammunition. The rate of exchange was not favorable. ...

— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace

... worse places where one might sleep," said the Mother. "The dead are less to be feared than the living, and the Cathedral is the safest place in Rheims." She brought out a wicker basket and began to pack it with food as she talked. First she put in two pots of jam. "There," said she, "that's the jam Grandmother made from her gooseberries ...

— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... a sacred chalice which he was in the habit of using as an ordinary drinking-cup. Poul cut off his head and the heads of twelve other Reformers found dead on the field of battle, and enclosing them in a wicker basket, sent them to ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... capturing the turkey are shown in the Tro-Cortesianus 93a and 91a (Pl. 16, figs. 1, 3). By the first, the bird is captured alive in a sort of wicker basket, which drops over it at the proper moment. The second method is by the "twich-up" or snare, which consists of a noose tied to a bent sapling and properly baited. In connection with Pl. 16, fig. 1, it may be suggested that possibly this represents a cage ...

— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen

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