Definitions for wattle

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wattle wat·tle

Spelling: [wot-l]

IPA: /ˈwɒt l/

Wattle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in wattle (aelttw).

Definitions for wattle

noun

1. Often, wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
2. wattles, a number of poles laid on a roof to hold thatch.
3. (in Australia) any of various acacias whose shoots and branches were used by the early colonists for wattles, now valued especially for their bark, which is used in tanning.
4. a fleshy lobe or appendage hanging down from the throat or chin of certain birds, as the domestic chicken or turkey.

adjective

1. built or roofed with wattle or wattles.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind, wall, fence, etc., with wattle or wattles.
2. to roof or frame with or as if with wattles.
3. to form into a basketwork; interweave; interlace.
4. to make or construct by interweaving twigs or branches:

Origin of wattle

before 900; (noun) Middle English wattel, Old English watul covering, akin to wætla bandage; (v.) Middle English wattelen, derivative of the noun

Examples for wattle

I skulked in the scrub as he came up—just behind a clump of wattle.

For leave to sit by their wattle they demanded contributions of fuel.

Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle, thatched with brush.

Candanga, met me in the path and gave me a welcome to his house of wattle and daub.

The walls of the dormitory were constructed in what is well known as "wattle and daub."

A yeather or yadder seems to be a rod to wattle the stakes with.

The wattle hanging from the neck is of a light orange at the tip.

As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.

As a rule this line is broken by the overgrowth of the wattle at the base of the beak.

It is built of oak framework, filled in with “wattle and daub.”