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wick⋅er

[wik-er]
–noun
1. a slender, pliant twig; osier; withe.
2. plaited or woven twigs or osiers as the material of baskets, chairs, etc.; wickerwork.
3. something made of wickerwork, as a basket.
–adjective
4. consisting or made of wicker: a wicker chair.
5. covered with wicker: a wicker jug.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < Scand; cf. dial. Sw vikker willow. See weak
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wick·er   (wĭk'ər)   
n.  
  1. A flexible plant branch or twig, as of a willow, used in weaving baskets or furniture.

  2. Wickerwork.


[Middle English wiker, of Scandinavian origin; see weik-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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wicker 
1336, "wickerwork," from a Scand. source (cf. M.Swed. viker "willow branch") akin to O.N. vikja "to move, turn," Swed. vika "to bend," and related to O.E. wican "to give way, yield" (see weak). The notion is of pliant twigs.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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