wattle
Often wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
wattles, a number of poles laid on a roof to hold thatch.
(in Australia) any of various acacias whose shoots and branches were used by the early colonists for wattles, now valued especially for their bark, which is used in tanning.
a fleshy lobe or appendage hanging down from the throat or chin of certain birds, as the domestic chicken or turkey.
to bind, wall, fence, etc., with wattle or wattles.
to roof or frame with or as if with wattles.
to form into a basketwork; interweave; interlace.
to make or construct by interweaving twigs or branches: to wattle a fence.
built or roofed with wattle or wattles.
Origin of wattle
1Other words from wattle
- un·wat·tled, adjective
Words Nearby wattle
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How to use wattle in a sentence
Your value increases every year and for developing neck wattles that comfort small granddaughters.
Justine Bateman's Aging Face and Why She Doesn't Think It Needs 'Fixing' | Susanna Schrobsdorff | April 11, 2021 | TimeVery little of the earlier buildings remained, as they all appear to have been built of wood and wattle-and-daub.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanAs for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusI skulked in the scrub as he came up—just behind a clump of wattle.
Colonial Born | G. Firth ScottThe first man was formed out of the gum of a wattle-tree, and came out of the knot of a wattle-tree.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang
A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah Prichard
British Dictionary definitions for wattle (1 of 2)
/ (ˈwɒtəl) /
a frame of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs, branches, etc, esp when used to make fences
the material used in such a construction
a loose fold of skin, often brightly coloured, hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds, lizards, etc
any of various chiefly Australian acacia trees having spikes of small brightly coloured flowers and flexible branches, which were used by early settlers for making fences: See also golden wattle
a southern African caesalpinaceous tree, Peltophorum africanum, with yellow flowers
to construct from wattle
to bind or frame with wattle
to weave or twist (branches, twigs, etc) into a frame
made of, formed by, or covered with wattle
Origin of wattle
1Derived forms of wattle
- wattled, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for wattle (2 of 2)
/ (ˈwɒtəl) /
Midland English dialect of poor quality
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