basketwork

American  

[bas-kit-wurk, bah-skit-] / ˈbæs kɪtˌwɜrk, ˈbɑ skɪt- /

noun

1. objects, textiles, etc., made or woven in the manner of a basket; basketry; wickerwork; interwoven work.

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basketwork British  

/ ˈbɑːskɪtˌwɜːk /

noun

1. another word for wickerwork

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Etymology

Origin of basketwork

First recorded in 1760–70; basket + work

Example Sentences

The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.

From Time Magazine Archive

On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Would it be sinful to take some of my basketwork and send back the money next week?"

From Homespun Tales by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

They had discovered the possibility of basketwork and roughly woven textiles of plant fibre, and they were beginning to make a rudely modelled pottery.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Then they filled the interstices with "wattle-and-daub," a basketwork of branches, twigs, and roots, coated on both sides with loam and lime, mixed with straw.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee