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What (who) is Wattle - definition
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Wattles; Wattle (disambiguation)
wattle
Wattle is a framework made by weaving thin sticks through thick sticks which is used for making fences and walls. (BRIT)
...the native huts of mud and wattle.
...wattle fencing.
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wattle
wattle1 ['w?t(?)l]
¦ noun
1. a material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches.
2. an Australian acacia with long pliant branches and cream, yellow, or golden flowers. [Acacia pycnatha (golden wattle, Australia's national emblem) and related species.]
¦ verb make, enclose, or fill up with wattle.
Origin
OE watul, of unknown origin.
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wattle2 ['w?t(?)l]
¦ noun a coloured fleshy lobe hanging from the head or neck of the turkey and some other birds.
Derivatives
wattled adjective
Origin
C16: of unknown origin.
Wattle
·noun Barbel of a fish.
II. Wattle ·vt To bind with twigs.
III. Wattle ·noun A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
IV. Wattle ·vt To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
V. Wattle ·noun A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
VII. Wattle ·add. ·noun Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, ·etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
VIII. Wattle ·noun The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning;
- called also wattle bark.
IX. Wattle ·noun A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
X. Wattle ·vt To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to Plat; as, to wattle branches.
XI. Wattle ·add. ·noun 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.
Examples of use of Wattle
1. Birds alight on the backs of wattle–necked cows and remain there unmolested.
2. The flames destroyed the roof, melted window screens and blackened the mud–and–wattle walls.
3. Omar‘s reed and wattle compound, fenced by scrawny thorn bushes, is home to five children and 16 grandchildren.
4. Jeffery‘s wife Marlena laid a sprig of golden Australian wattle on each coffin, on which lay an Australian army slouch hat and an Australian flag.
5. The group also discovered a new honeyeater bird, which has a bright orange face–patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.