From Middle English wiker, cognate with Old Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Made of wickerwork.
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. 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
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. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Translations (5)
tr hasır (made of wickerwork) · hu fonott (made of wickerwork) · nl gevlochten (made of wickerwork) · bg плетен (made of wickerwork) · hu vesszőből font (made of wickerwork)
From Middle English wiker, cognate with Old Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
(countable, uncountable) Wickerwork.
Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it. 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, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
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