basketwork

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Material woven in the style of a basket. uncountable,usually
    — 1671, John Burbury, A Relation of the Journey of the Right Honourable My Lord Henry Howard from London to Vienna, and thence to Constantinople, London: T. Collins et al., p. 172, The Village Walls resemble those in Hungary, but are something worse, being only long Stakes thrust into the Ground, and crossed through like Basket-work, and so dawbed all over on both sides with Mud and Dirt.
  2. The craft of making such material. uncountable,usually
    — In one of his letters to Mrs [Madge] Kendal, Joseph [Merrick] mentioned that he hoped one day to be able to learn basket work. She promptly arranged for an instructor to teach him the craft.

词形变化

basketworks plural basket work alternative basket-work alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *baskis
Proto-Brythonicder.
Late Latin bascauda
Anglo-Norman bascatbor.
Middle English basket
English basket
English -work
English basketwork
From basket + -work.
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