Osier vs Cosier - What's the difference?
osier | cosier |
A kind of willow, , growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
* 1952 , L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 188:
(cosy)
As nouns the difference between osier and cosier
is that osier is a kind of willow, species: Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow while cosier is an incompetent tailor.As an adjective cosier is
comparative of cosy.osier
English
Noun
(en noun)- Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.
