wattle and daub

noun

1. Also wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
2. a form of wall construction consisting of upright posts or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches and plastered with a mixture of clay and straw.

wattle and daub

noun

1. 1. a form of wall construction consisting of interwoven twigs plastered with a mixture of clay, lime, water, and sometimes dung and chopped straw
   2. ( as modifier )

      a wattle-and-daub hut

Word History and Origins

Origin of wattle and daub¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Very little of the earlier buildings remained, as they all appear to have been built of wood and wattle-and-daub.

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Beyond it there lay amid the trees the wattle-and-daub hut of a laborer, the door open, and the single room exposed to the view.

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In the round hut, which was made with branches and wattle-and-daub, stick nests were united to the plaster work of rock martins.

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The original little "wattle-and-daub" cottage, with its windows half hidden under creepers, was gone.

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The end walls were closed with wooden studs and wattle-and-daub filling.

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