wattling
- present participle of wattle.
Example Sentences
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A bacon bouse of two-score ribs, A wattling of tripe—support of clans— Of every food pleasant to man, Meseemed the whole was gathered there.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He made a stubborn resistance from behind a wattling fence, on a hill thickly covered with pine.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts.
From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by Holmes, William Henry
Three men should make a hurdle in 2 hours, 2 wattling and the third preparing the rods.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)
There I was at the bottom of the pit, with half the wattling on top of me.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
