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Pronunciation : Wat"tle
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. Wallet.]
Definition : 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?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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Wat"tle
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Wattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wattling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913