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Wattle   /wˈɑtəl/   Listen
Wattle

noun
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.  Synonym: lappet.
2.
Framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence.
3.
Any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle.
verb
(past & past part. wattled; pres. part. wattling)
1.
Build of or with wattle.
2.
Interlace to form wattle.



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"Wattle" Quotes from Famous Books



... your first fore-running few A thousand men for every one! For this true stroke of statesmanship— The best Australian poem yet— Old England gives your hand the grip, And binds you with a coronet, In which the gold o' the Wattle glows With Shamrock, Thistle, and ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... by this time, lying down like a child on the old native dogskin rug that we tanned ourselves with wattle bark. She had her hand on his hair—thick and curly it was always from a child. She didn't say anything, but I could see the tears drip, drip down from her face; her head was on Jim's shoulder, and by and by he put his arms round ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... fair-sized stick-and-wattle house. He was a dapper little man, with a cleverish, weakling cast of face, and was all on the jump with the turn things had taken. He had just opened the door to us, and was eyeing us uncertainly, when the Colonel and the Chief, returning on foot from their inspection, having left their ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... limbs were not bound, or their movements hampered in any way, therefore the moment that the wattle door of their prison was slammed upon them and barred on the outside, the pair joyously shook hands ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... Thomas Waterman William Waterman (3) Henry Waters John Waters Thomas Waters John Watkins Thomas Watkins (4) Edward Watson Joseph Watson Henry Watson (2) John Watson (5) Nathaniel Watson Robert Watson Thomas Watson (5) William Watson John Watt William Wattle Henry Wattles Joseph Watts Samuel Watts Thomas Watts Andrew Waymore James Wear Jacob Weatherall Joseph Weatherox Thomas Weaver Jacob Webb James Webb John Webb (3) Jonathan Webb Michael Webb Nathaniel Webb Oliver Webb Thomas Webb (2) William ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge


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