Turkey's hanging fold of skin

Usage examples of wattle.

These articles, being generally light and portable, and constructed of delicate parts, can as well be classed with basketry as with wattle work.

It was a long low room, the walls made of pine slabs stuck upright, and the crevices filled up with clay held together by wattles about six inches apart, with a shingled roof, unceiled, and a clay-floor well beaten down by the tread of many feet.

Stepping over a slimy pile best left unexamined, Rani huddled against the daub and wattle, taking only an instant to pull her clothes closer, to protect her skin from the filthy building.

The larch trees with their broken backs, the enormous black sky streaked with fistfuls of congealed fat, the abandoned Poor House that looked like a barn, the great brown dripping box of the Lutheran church bereft of sour souls, bereft of the hymn singers with poke bonnets and sunken and accusing horse faces and dreary choruses, a few weather-beaten cottages unlighted and tight to the dawn and filled, I could see at a glance, with the marvelous dry morality of calico and beans and lard, and then a privy, a blackened pile of tin cans, and even a rooster, a single live rooster strutting in a patch of weeds and losing his broken feathers, clutching his wattles, every moment or two trying to crow into the wind, trying to grub up the head of a worm with one of his snubbed-off claws, cankerous little bloodshot rooster pecking away at the dawn in the empty yard of some dead fisherman .

His shaft furnace was just a tube of wattle and daub, vitrified by repeated firings.

Grossly female in conformation, it wore a face hideously wattled with excess flesh.

As Jahna followed the wattled woman across the courtyard, dread clutched her heart.

Only the wattled woman continued to fuss over the complaining infants.

Why send all the way to Peace for someone to care for the six babies in the nursery when he had Valor, the wattled woman, surely other equally capable women available?

And Elda, presumably the wattled woman, was about to be freed from nursery duty for the evening.

Castle, seen from a distance, was an irregular diadem that perched on the craggy brow of a rock overlooking the wattled rooftops of the Old Town across the river.

Gripping the frosted rail, Emilia leaned into the cool air, peering westward across the snow-capped chimneys and wattled rooftops to where the White Mountain, five miles distant, stood lost in its pall of grey mist.

Cattle lowed, sheep bleated in the wattled pens that held them until they were butchered for the army.

The processes employed are known by such terms as wattling, interlacing, plaiting, netting, weaving, sewing, and embroidering.

Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts.