Word Meanings - WICKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as

Additional info about word: WICKER

1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as 1st Wike.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• WICKER
  1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• OSIERED
  Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. Collins.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PRESSURAGE
  1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• PRESSWORK
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• EDAM; EDAM CHEESE
  A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.