Definitions for: 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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: lappet

See Also: build, caruncle, caruncula, construct, enlace, entwine, frame, framework, framing, interlace, intertwine, lace, make, twine

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