Noun
wicker (countable and uncountable, plural wickers)
- A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
- Wickerwork.
- wicker basket
- wicker cradle
1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.
Translations
flexible branch or twig
- Assamese: কামি (kami)
- Catalan: vímet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 柳條/柳条 (zh) (liǔtiáo), 篳/筚 (zh) (bì)
- Czech: virgule (cs) f
- Dutch: teen (nl), twijg (nl)
- Finnish: vitsa (fi)
- French: osier (fr) m
- Galician: vime m, vimbio (gl) m, bringa f, buíño m, guineita f, guimia f, trogallo m, brime m, ódega f
- German: Weide (de) f
- Greek: ψάθα (el) f (psátha)
- Hungarian: vessző (hu), fűzfavessző (hu)
- Ingrian: vitsa
- Irish: caolach m
- Italian: vimini
- Japanese: 小枝 (ja) (こえだ, koeda), 籐 (ja) (とう, tō) (esp. attributive)
- Korean: 고리 (ko) (gori)
- Ladino: estera f
- Persian: ترکه (fa) (tarke)
- Polish: wiklina (pl) f
- Portuguese: vime (pt) m, verga (pt) f
- Romanian: nuia (ro) f
- Russian: прут (ru) m (prut), лоза́ (ru) f (lozá)
- Spanish: mimbre (es) m
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Adjective
wicker (not comparable)
- Made of wickerwork.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.