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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wicker \Wick"er\, noun [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to AS. w[=i]can to give way. Cf. {Weak}.]
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. --Chapman.
3. Same as 1st {Wike}. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wicker \Wick"er\, adjective Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrail['e]d curiously. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wike \Wike\, noun A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also {wicker}. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wicker
noun
1: slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
2: work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: {wickerwork}, {caning}]
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