Definitions for osier

osier o·sier

Spelling: [oh-zher]
IPA: /ˈoʊ ʒər/

Osier is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in osier (eiors).

Definitions for osier

noun

  1. any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
  2. a twig from such a willow.
  3. any of various North American dogwoods.

Origin of osier

1300-50; Middle English Middle French; akin to Medieval Latin ausāria willow bed

Examples for osier

Their shields were made of osier twigs, and their javelins were blunted.

Before reaching Pangbourne we pass acres of osier beds on the right.

An osier bow-net and two or three old fishing-boats might be seen there.

A variety of colors was the only ornament of their wooden or osier shields.

Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast.

Still, she often neglected her osier tray to go rambling about the neighbourhood.

Here it serves all the purposes to which the osier is applied in Europe.

Patience, with hideous calmness, bound me to a tree with an osier shoot.

Kalliope was never beaten by her grandfather with osier rods.

The reference is to baskets made of osier, a kind of willow.

Word Value for osier
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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