Wattle

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·noun Barbel of a fish.

II. Wattle ·vt To bind with twigs.

III. Wattle ·noun A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

IV. Wattle ·vt To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

V. Wattle ·noun A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

VI. Wattle ·noun The trees from which the bark is obtained. ·see Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

VII. Wattle ·add. ·noun Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, ·etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.

VIII. Wattle ·noun The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning;

— called also wattle bark.

IX. Wattle ·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.

X. Wattle ·vt To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to Plat; as, to wattle branches.

XI. Wattle ·add. ·noun 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.

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