osier
- noun
- /ˈoʊʒər/
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sarga
- A basket weaver, without knowing what he was doing or why, was creating a wicker crate of osier strands to a most unusual design.
- red osier
- osier dogwood
Examples
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You're a volunteer osier.
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Pelts, Plumes, and Hides: White Traders Among the Seminole Indians 1870-1930. Kersey. (A. H. Der, osier Jr.) 4(3):253.
Academic text (1992) -
Leonard rushes out and goes to the river, past the church and the sheep, past the osier bed.
Fiction book (2002) -
A little Angolan basket, woven in a special manner from small, tender osiers (Widlen).
Academic text (1994) -
She walks past one of the farm workers (is his name John?), a robust, small-headed man wearing a potato-colored vest, cleaning the ditch that runs through the osier bed.
Fiction book (2002) -
My friends say spring brings a surge, hope rising to climax, like the osier's tight skin reddened to the bursting point, like pussywillow roused, nubs open to be ravished.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artisan skillfully wove a basket from thin strands of osier collected in the nearby river.
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She used the flexible branches of osier to create a beautiful chair for the patio.
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To make the decorative fence, they harvested osier from the willow trees along the banks.
Synonyms
A willow with long flexible twigs used for making baskets
A willow with long flexible twigs used for making baskets
A type of willow with long flexible branches used for making baskets
A type of willow with long flexible twigs used for making baskets
A tree with long flexible twigs used for making baskets
A tree with long flexible branches used for weaving baskets
A strong flexible willow twig used for tying and weaving
A Eurasian willow with red twigs used for making baskets
A tree with many branches and long flower clusters used in flower arrangements
Compounds
How Flexible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Osier comes from an old French word meaning 'willow', because the soft, bendy branches of that tree were used for weaving baskets and making wicker furniture.