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noun

Wattle n.

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."

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.

5.

Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. "The pailsade of wattle."

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.

Wattle turkey. (Zool.) Same as Brush turkey.

verb

Wattle v. t. (past & past part. wattled; pres. part. 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."

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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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