wicker-work
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This elongates the bag, and brings a heavy pressure upon the mass within, causing the juice to ooze out through the wicker-work of the bag.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
Next came wicker-work baskets of rushes or reeds, smeared with mud or pitch, similar to the ark in which Moses was found.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
But after a while one of the said worthies, opening a little of the wicker-work door, bent his ear to the aperture, and appeared to be listening intently.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Basket, a vessel or utensil of wicker-work, made of interwoven osiers or willows, rushes, twigs, grasses, &c.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
It was an elderly woman, richly dressed, with a wicker-work picnic basket in her hand.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
