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. Tennyson.
A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
Barbel of a fish.
The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
To bind with twigs.
To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.
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