Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Basketwork.
  • noun A place where osiers are grown.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An osier bed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An osier bed.

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Examples

  • The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery.

    Archive 2010-04-01 David McDuff 2010

  • The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery.

    The house of forgetting David McDuff 2010

  • Didn’t you spot her in her windaug, wubbling up on an osiery chair, with a meusic before her all cunniform letters, pretending to ribble a reedy derg on a fiddle she bogans without a band on?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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