Definition of Wattles. Meaning of Wattles. Synonyms of Wattles

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Wattles. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Wattles and, of course, Wattles synonyms and on the right images related to the word Wattles.

Definition of Wattles

Wattle
Wattle Wat"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wattling.] 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.
Wattle
Wattle Wat"tle, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. Wallet.] 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["o]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. 4. (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark. (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna. Wattle turkey. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Brush turkey.
Wattle
Wattle Wat"tle, n. 1. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. ``The pailsade of wattle.' --Frances Macnab. 2. (Bot.) 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.

Meaning of Wattles from wikipedia

- wattle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wattle or wattles may refer to: Acacia sensu lato, polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle,...
- decorative bracing. This style requires the wattles to be woven for better support of the daub. To insert wattles in a square panel several steps are required...
- Caruncles in birds include those found on the face, wattles, dewlaps, snoods, and earlobes. Wattles are generally paired structures but may occur as a...
- explains his spiritual ideology on how to become wealthy. Wattles' daughter, Florence A. Wattles, described her father's life in a "Letter" that was published...
- When the twigs or wattles had been interwoven with the posts the hurdle became one homogenous whole. Wattles forms the basis of wattle and daub, a composite...
- grey bare facial skin, whereas the males are pale-blue. Moreover, the red wattles on the head and chest is enlarged in the male, whilst it is reduced for...
- banker Gurdon Wattles as his winter home; the estate contains a complex of gardens. It was sold to the city in 1968 and became the Wattles Garden Park,...
- Australian spring. This is the time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower. So, people wear a sprig of the flowers and...
- driving ambition, and a ruthless streak." Gurdon Wallace Wattles was the third son of James Wattles and Elizabeth Whitton. He was born on May 12, 1855, in...
- as Darwin Black Wattle or northern black wattle; Acacia concurrens Acacia cr****icarpa Acacia decurrens, also known as Early Black Wattle Acacia hakeoides...