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wicker basket

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Noun1.wicker basketwicker basket - a basket made of wickerwork
basket, handbasket - a container that is usually woven and has handles
pannier - a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person


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For example, by all their common and familiar performances--throwing large objects into the air which never come down; causing plants to sprout, grow visibly and blossom, in bare ground chosen by spectators; putting a man into a wicker basket, piercing him through and through with a sword while he shrieks and bleeds, and then--the basket being opened nothing is there; tossing the free end of a silken ladder into the air, mounting it and disappearing.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
From this framework was suspended a wicker basket or car.
The Balloon Hoax by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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