Found 2 items, similar to wattle.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wattle
wattle
n 1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin
hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds
(chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn:
lappet]
2: framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to
form a fence
v 1: build of or with wattle
2: interlace to form wattle
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wattle
Wattle
\Wat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Wattled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wattling.]
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1. To bind with twigs.
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2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to
form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
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3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
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The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.
--Milton.
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Wattle
\Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering,
wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf.
Wallet.]
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1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
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And there he built with wattles from the marsh
A little lonely church in days of yore. --Tennyson.
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2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
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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.
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4.
(a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the
genus
Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also
wattle bark.
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5. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used
for walls, fences, and the like.
“The pailsade of
wattle.” --Frances Macnab.
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6. (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. The bark of such trees
is also called wattle. See also
Savanna wattle, under
Savanna.
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Wattle turkey. (Zo["o]l.) Same as
Brush turkey.
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