WICKER BASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wicker basket mean? 

• WICKER BASKET (noun)
  The noun WICKER BASKET has 1 sense:

1. a basket made of wickerwork

  Familiarity information: WICKER BASKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WICKER BASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basket made of wickerwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wicker basket" is a kind of...):

basket; handbasket (a container that is usually woven and has handles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wicker basket"):

pannier (a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person)

 Context examples 

I was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s methods to be able to follow his reasoning, and to see that the nature and state of the various medical instruments in the wicker basket which hung in the lamplight inside the brougham had given him the data for his swift deduction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)