They had discovered the possibility of basketwork and roughly woven textiles of plant fibre, and they were beginning to make a rudely modelled pottery.
A basketwork boat covered with skin and caulked was used in Egypt and Sumeria from the beginnings of our knowledge.
Connected with thebasketwork posteriorly is a remarkable cup-shaped cartilage, which supports the hind wall of the pericardium.
In an adult river lamprey the basketwork consists on each side of a series of eight vertical half-hoops of cartilage.
A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish.
Defn: A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish.
The jar is thoroughly insulated, cased in basketwork and provided with a cover, as seen in the illustration.
Large amounts of wood are converted into charcoal in these countries and sent to market baled in rough matting or in basketwork cases woven from small brush and holding two to two and a half bushels.
They are made of the skins of one or two buffaloes with the hair on, not dressed, and stretched over a basketwork of willows.
This construction is a small lodge thrown over a basketwork of willows stuck in the ground and bent in an oval or round form, the skins well pinned down and every aperture well closed.
This gives to the organ the appearance of basketwork or network.
Each set consists of two plate-like bodies with a texture of reticulated or basketwork appearance.
In the order /Eulamellibranchiata/ we find all the families to be possessed of the basketwork or crisscross branchial structure.
The whole structure forms the commencement of the branchial basketwork of the adult; the arrangement of which differs considerably in structure and origin from the simple system of branchial clefts of normal vertebrate types.
The extra-branchial basketwork becomes established very early (it is present in the larva of 6 millimetres, about 9 days after hatching) and is shewn in an older larva in fig.
