wattle

4 definitions found

wattle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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. (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.
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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. (Zool.) Same as Brush turkey.
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  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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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: wattle, 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
      v 1: build of or with wattle
      2: interlace to form wattle

wattle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "wattle":
     arabesque, basketry, basketwork, braid, cancellation,
     cross-hatching, crossing-out, enlace, entwine, filigree, fret,
     fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork,
     hachure, hatching, interknit, interlace, interlacement,
     intertexture, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement,
     intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, lace, lacery, lacework,
     lacing, lattice, latticework, loom, loop, mat, mesh, meshes,
     meshwork, net, netting, network, noose, plait, pleach, plexure,
     plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle,
     screen, screening, sieve, splice, texture, tissue, tracery,
     trellis, trelliswork, twill, twine, twist, weave, weaving, web,
     webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wreathe