different between basketworm vs basketwork

English

basket +? worm

basketworm (plural basketworms)

basket +? work

basketwork (usually uncountable, plural basketworks)

Material woven in the style of a basket.
Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork
- 1671, John Burbury, A Relation of the Journey of the Right Honourable My Lord Henry Howard from London to Vienna, and thence to Constantinople, London: T. Collins et al., p. 172,^[1]
  The Village Walls resemble those in Hungary, but are something worse, being only long Stakes thrust into the Ground, and crossed through like Basket-work, and so dawbed all over on both sides with Mud and Dirt.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, Penguin, 1969, Chapter 50, p. 324,^[2]
  Once again he leaned forward, his hands grasping the basket-work rim of his chair.
The craft of making such material.
Synonyms: basketry, basket weaving
- 1980, Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The True History of the Elephant Man, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 123,^[3]
  In one of his letters to Mrs Kendal, Joseph mentioned that he hoped one day to be able to learn basket work. She promptly arranged for an instructor to teach him the craft.

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