1. Noun
A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
2. Noun
A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. Noun
A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
4. Noun
Barbel of a fish.
5. Noun
The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
6. Noun
The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
7. Verb
To bind with twigs.
8. Verb
To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
9. Verb
To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
10. Noun
any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
11. Noun
framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
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