ozier

When the boar is thus cut out each piece is wrapped up, either with bulrushes, ozier, peels, tape inkle, [1] or such like, and then sodden in a lead or caldron together, till they be so tender that a man may thrust a bruised rush or straw clean through the fat: which being done, they take it up and lay it abroad to cool.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

One of these men carried on his back, in an ozier basket covered with wire gauze, a child eight years of age, who had on no other clothing than an asbestos bonnet.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various

Anchor Church, Knoll Hills, the long bridge at Swarkestone, the charming little country town of Melbourne, the wooded beauties of Duffield and Belper, the ozier beds of Spondon; how often have I trod their fields, their woods, their lanes, their paths; and how pleasantly the memory of it all comes back to me now!

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

When the boar is thus cut out each piece is wrapped up, either with bulrushes, ozier, peels, tape inkle, 1 or such like, and then sodden in a lead or caldron together, till they be so tender that a man may thrust a bruised rush or straw clean through the fat: which being done, they take it up and lay it abroad to cool.

Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909

As he was on the point of moving forward, stooping to avoid an ozier, something on the edge of the thicket caught his eye.

A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories 1899

Robin was an ozier wand and there was no swoop or dart or sudden sway and change she was not alert at.

The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

River Thames, as a gentleman whose "garment loose and flowing, coloured blue and white, waved like water, flags and ozier-like long hair falling o'er his shoulders; his beard long, sea-green, and white."

Royalty Restored 1883

Fire was the weapon usually turned against the ram, torches, burning tow, or other inflammable substances being cast from the walls upon its framework, which, wherever it was of ozier or of wood, could be easily set alight and consumed.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

'Oh! never fear! for I'll just tie this ozier band round it', said the lad, as he pulled it out.

Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

Then Boots, the youngest, set off, and when he had gone a little way he found an ozier band lying on the road, and he picked it up.

Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856