WATTLE
\wˈɒtə͡l], \wˈɒtəl], \w_ˈɒ_t_əl]\
Definitions of WATTLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
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Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
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A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
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A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
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A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
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Barbel of a fish.
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The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
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To bind with twigs.
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To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
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To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
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The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; - called also wattle bark.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
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A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
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A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
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A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
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Barbel of a fish.
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The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
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To bind with twigs.
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To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
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To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
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The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; - called also wattle bark.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A twig; a rod easily bent; a hurdle of pliant rods; loose red lfesh under the throat of a cock, etc.
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To twist or interweave (twigs or roads) one with another; to fence with rods.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A twig or flexible rod: a hurdle: the fieshy excrescence under the throat of a cock or a turkey.
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To bind with wattles or twigs: to form by plaiting twigs.
By Daniel Lyons
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A twig; flexible rod; hurdle: fleshy excrescence under the throat of a cock, &c.
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To interweave with twigs; form of wattles.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
