About The Word Wattle
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Wattle
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What's The Definition Of Wattle?
[n] framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
[n] a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [v] interlace to form wattle [v] build of or with wattle Synonyms | Synonyms for Wattle: lappet Related Terms | Find terms related to Wattle: See Also | build | caruncle | caruncula | construct | enlace | entwine | frame | framework | framing | interlace | intertwine | lace | make | twine Wattle In Webster's Dictionary \Wat"tle\, n.
1. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used
for walls, fences, and the like. ``The pailsade of
wattle.'' --Frances Macnab.
2. (Bot.) In Australasia, any tree of the genus {Acacia}; --
so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early
settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the
split stems of the slender species.
\Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. {Wallet}.] 1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. --Tennyson. 2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. 3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile. (b) Barbel of a fish. 4. (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus {Acacia}, used in tanning; -- called also {wattle bark}. (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See {Savanna wattle}, under {Savanna}. {Wattle turkey}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Brush turkey}. \Wat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wattled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wattling}.] 1. To bind with twigs. 2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches. 3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. --Milton. |
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