wattle
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1. wattle - Noun
2. wattle - Verb
Meaning
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.
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The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.
Acacia tree near the limit of its range in the Negev Desert of southern Israel Golden wattle ( Acacia pycnantha ), the floral emblem of Australia Seed pods of Acacia species from the MHNT This article describes acacias in the broader sense.
Can you tell a cabbage rose from a peony; foxgloves from verbascums or golden wattle from golden wreath wattle?
Today, they live in unpretentious huts of wattle, daub and thatch.
The space between the posts was filled in with wattle and daub, or occasionally, planks.
The wattle and daub also shows evidence of partial burning.