Wat"tle (?), n. [AS. watel,
watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel
a bag. Cf. Wallet.]
1. 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.
2. A rod laid on a roof to support the
thatch.
3. (Zoöl.) (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.
4. (a) The astringent bark of
several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; --
called also wattle bark. (b) (Bot.)
The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle,
under Savanna.
Wattle turkey. (Zoöl.) Same as
Brush turkey.
Wat"tle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Wattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Wattling (?).]
1. To bind with twigs.
2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as
twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle
branches.
3. To form, by interweaving or platting
twigs.
The folded flocks, penned in their wattled
cotes.
Milton.
Wat"tle (?), n. 1.
Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for
walls, fences, and the like. "The pailsade of wattle."
Frances Macnab.
2. (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.
Wat"tle (?), n. [AS. watel,
watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel
a bag. Cf. Wallet.]
1. 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.
2. A rod laid on a roof to support the
thatch.
3. (Zoöl.) (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.
4. (a) The astringent bark of
several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; --
called also wattle bark. (b) (Bot.)
The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle,
under Savanna.
Wattle turkey. (Zoöl.) Same as
Brush turkey.
Wat"tle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Wattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Wattling (?).]
1. To bind with twigs.
2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as
twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle
branches.
3. To form, by interweaving or platting
twigs.
The folded flocks, penned in their wattled
cotes.
Milton.
Wat"tle (?), n. 1.
Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for
walls, fences, and the like. "The pailsade of wattle."
Frances Macnab.
2. (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.
