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A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards
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A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat
wattling
an interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle

1952: Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 188.

wattling
the act of making such a mesh
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{v} to bind, fix or form with twigs
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{n} hurdles of willows, a cock's gills
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Barbel of a fish
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{i} interwoven twigs and branches used for fences or walls; Australian tree or shrub of the Acacia genus; fleshy and wrinkled piece of skin hanging from the throat of some types of fowl and some kinds of lizards
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A kind of woven mesh of sticks, usually oak or willow, used in house construction
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To form, by interweaving or platting twigs
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A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch
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The trees from which the bark is obtained
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To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles
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used for walls, fences, and the like
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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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A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof
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A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods
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Any of several Australian trees of the Genus Acacia
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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
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framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
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To bind with twigs
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A mat of woven (willow) sticks and weeds; used in wall and dike construction
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framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards interlace to form wattle build of or with wattle
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Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person
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a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
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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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– A fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat, characteristic of certain birds, such as chickens or turkeys, and some lizards
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build of or with wattle
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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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See Savanna wattle, under Savanna
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Wattle is a framework made by weaving thin sticks through thick sticks which is used for making fences and walls. the native huts of mud and wattle. wattle fencing
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interlace to form wattle
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A mat of woven (willow) sticks and weeds used in wall and dike construction
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Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc
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past of wattle
wattled
{s} with wattles, having fleshy and wrinkled piece of skin hanging from the throat or chin
wattled
having a wattle
wattled
Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat
wattles
plural of wattle
wattling
an interwoven mesh of twigs
wattling
The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed
wattle
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