wattle
noun
Often wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
wattling
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present participleof wattle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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
There I was at the bottom of the pit, with half the wattling on top of me.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
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 James A. (James Alfred) Moss
Similar effects have been produced by the erection of plank fences, and even of simple screens of wattling and reeds.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
If brush is scarce, gabions may be made with 6 ins. of wattling at each end, the middle left open.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss
