Osier vs Osiery - What's the difference?
osier | osiery |
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:
As nouns the difference between osier and osiery
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 osiery is an osier bed.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.