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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)