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Definition of Wattles

Wattle
Wattle 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.
Wattle
Wattle 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. (Zo["o]l.) (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. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Brush turkey.
Wattle
Wattle 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.

Meaning of Wattles from wikipedia

- wattle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wattle or wattles may refer to: Acacia sensu lato, polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle,...
- decorative bracing. This style requires the wattles to be woven for better support of the daub. To insert wattles in a square panel several steps are required...
- Caruncles in birds include those found on the face, wattles, dewlaps, snoods, and earlobes. Wattles are generally paired structures but may occur as a...
- movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to become wealthy. Wattles' daughter, Florence...
- When the twigs or wattles had been interwoven with the posts the hurdle became one homogenous whole. Wattles forms the basis of wattle and daub, a composite...
- as Darwin Black Wattle or northern black wattle; Acacia concurrens Acacia cr****icarpa Acacia decurrens, also known as Early Black Wattle Acacia hakeoides...
- wealthy Omaha, Nebraska, banker Gurdon Wattles as a winter home. Next to the Wattles Mansion are Wattles Park and Wattles Gardens, now administered by the City...
- Australian spring. This is the time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower. So, people wear a sprig of the flowers and...
- head pattern, with unfeathered yellow skin, and black forehead and throat wattles. The extent to which these seasonal features develop increases with the...
- The wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) is a wader in the family Jacanidae found throughout much of South America east of the Andes, as well as western Panama...