What does "wattle" mean?
Wattle: A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
Additional senses
- 2.(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.
- 3.(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.
- 4.To bind with twigs.
- 5.To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
- 6.To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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