Wicker vs Osier - What's the difference?
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A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
Wickerwork.
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Made of wickerwork.
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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.
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As nouns the difference between wicker and osier
is that wicker is a flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture while 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.As an adjective wicker
is made of wickerwork.wicker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.
Derived terms
* wickerwork * rewicker * Wicker ManSee also
* basket * cradle English terms with homophonesAdjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
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.
