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Webster 1913 Edition


Wattle

Wat′tle

,
Noun.
[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.
(Zool.)
(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
.
Wattle turkey
.
(Zool.)
Same as
Brush turkey
.

Wat′tle

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wattle

WATTLE

,
Noun.
[L., a shoot.]
1.
Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.
2.
The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish.
3.
A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

WATTLE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To bind with twigs.
2.
To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to for a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge.

Definition 2024


wattle

wattle

English

A wattle (construction of woven branches) fence (bottom).
Wattle (fold of skin in birds and lizards) hanging from a rooster’s neck.
Wattles of a goat.
Acacia podalyriifolia, a wattle (Australian tree of the genus Acacia).

Noun

wattle (plural wattles)

  1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson
      And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
  2. A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  3. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
  4. A barbel of a fish.
  5. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
  6. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
  7. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.

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Verb

wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)

  1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.