wickerwork n work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) Usage(s) Complete with dusty wickerwork chairs, an ancient gramophone and a scattering of pith helmets, it looks straight out of a Graham Greene novel. Peasants from the interior of the isthmus presented fancy wickerwork baskets they had made. Facing the benches was a dais protected from the weather by a screen of wickerwork daubed with clay. Synonym(s) wicker caning