English English Dictionary

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

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.

The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

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.