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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Wattle

Wat'tle, n.

noun

(wŏt'tl), n. [A-S. watel, wätel, wättl, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle, allied to withe, q. v.]

  1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
  2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  3. The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish. Walton.
  4. The astringent bark of an Australian tree of the genus Acacia (or Mimosa), used in tanning;—called also wattle-bark; also, the tree from which it is obtained. Simmonds. Baird.

Wăt'tle, v. t.

verbtransitive

(wŏt'tl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. WATTLED; p. pr. & vb. n. WATTLING.]

  1. To bind with twigs.
  2. To twist or interweave, as twigs, one with another; to form a kind of net-work with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
  3. To form of platted twigs. “The thick-fleeced sheep from wattled folds.” Byron.

The folded flocks penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.