n. - A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
n. - A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
n. - A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
n. - Barbel of a fish.
n. - The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
n. - The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
v. t. - To bind with twigs.
v. t. - To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
v. t. - To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
n. - Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
n. - 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.