Pack baskets that are used for carrying game and for general utility on long voyages are of the open wickerwork description.
The sides and back of the carriage were made of wickerwork matting.
Against the walls there were carved chests, enriched with colour, and chairs with leather seats and wickerwork backs, as well as three-legged and folding stools, were placed about the room.
There were small mud-huts, and quaint-looking domes of wickerworkwith bits of scrub tucked into the interstices.
The wickerwork creaked as he gently shook the trunk at short intervals.
Then he felt the cover of the wickerwork trunk bend slightly and heard it creak.
Defn: A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.
The Somal generally carry their store in large wickerwork pails.
M35 Mannhardt thought that the men and animals whom the Druids burned in wickerworkimages represented spirits of vegetation, and that the burning of them was a charm to secure a supply of sunshine for the crops.
He supposed that the men whom the Druids burned in wickerworkimages represented the spirits of vegetation, and accordingly that the custom of burning them was a magical ceremony intended to secure the necessary sunshine for the crops.
A magician who lives on a mountain in a wickerwork castle," was the reply.
I am told he lives in a wickerwork castle in the mountains to the west of here.
When a great feast is in preparation turtle-fishing begins several weeks in advance, and the beasts are kept alive in a stone or wickerwork enclosure in shallow water, which is called a mbi.
On the wickerwork were pieces of grey cloth, such as was generally offered to idols, and a piece of which had been pressed on the captain on landing.
In the second were Kaoo, the chief of the priests, and his brethren, with idols of wickerwork of gigantic size, covered with feathers of different colours and red cloth.
Each carried on her back a wickerwork basket supported by a head-strap which went around her forehead.
He also secured from the Nhambiquaras wickerwork baskets of a different type and bows and arrows.
A rather comely young woman, carrying on her back a wickerwork basket, or creel, supported by a forehead band, and accompanied by a small child, was with them.
The wickerwork horse Bayard was left to itself out in the square, and the wind whisked the water soaked draperies over its head, disclosing piteously all of its poor framework.
The wickerworkwas made of wattles, light and straight, and bent over at regular distances.
Like most of the Zulu tribes, they build wickerwork huts, and thatch these with the long tambookie grass.
The decoration of some pots certainly suggests the imitation of wickerwork and knitting, but there are symbols also, and these had, no doubt, a religious significance.
The natives made voyages to and from the island in their canoes of wickerwork covered with hides.
Togher [toher]; a road constructed through a bog or swamp; often of brambles or wickerwork covered over with gravel and stones.
Kish; a large square basket made of wattles and wickerwork used for measuring turf or for holding turf on a cart.
Curragh, a light boat made of wickerworkcovered with hides.
The body of the chariot was made of wickerwork supported by an outer frame of strong wooden bars: and it was frequently ornamented with tin.
The whole surface of thewickerwork was plastered on the outside, and made brilliantly white with lime, or occasionally striped in various colours; leaving the white poles exposed to view.
Rivers were usually crossed by bridges, which were made either of planks or of strong wickerwork supported by piles.
The Irish used several kinds of boats, of which the commonest was the curragh, made of wickerwork woven round a frame of strong wattles, and covered with hides which were stitched together with thongs.
Their defensive weapons were small circular shields of leather-covered wickerwork and thick cotton breastplates.
These giants of Jordan's, being built of wickerwork and pasteboard, at last fell to decay.
In 1837 Alderman Lucas exhibited two wickerwork copies of Gog and Magog, fourteen feet high, their faces on a level with the first-floor windows of Cheapside, and these monstrosities delighted the crowd.
Fortunately there was but a little swell on, but still the ship bumped very heavily, and seemed to bend under us like a wickerwork basket.
The houses of these people are composed of wickerwork and thatch.
They are entered by a small opening about three feet high, which is closed by a wickerwork door.
