Crossword clues for wattle
wattle
- Turkey's dewlap
- A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
- Framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
- Interlace
- Turkey-throat pendant
- Turkey's hanging appendage
- Appendage on a turkey's chin
- Material for making fences, roofing etc - Australian acacia
- Australian acacia
- Turkey part
- Turkey feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wattle \Wat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wattling.]
To bind with twigs.
To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
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To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.
--Milton.
Wattle \Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. Wallet.]
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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. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
Barbel of a fish.
(a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. ``The pailsade of wattle.''
--Frances Macnab.-
(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. The bark of such trees is also called wattle. See also Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
Wattle turkey. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Brush turkey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fleshy appendage below the neck of certain birds," 1510s (extended jocularly to human beings, 1560s), of uncertain origin and of doubtful relationship to wattle (n.1). Related: Wattled.
"stakes interlaced with twigs and forming the framework of the wall of a building," Old English watol "hurdle," in plural "twigs, thatching, tiles," related to weðel "bandage," from Proto-Germanic *wadlaz, from PIE *au- (3) "to weave" (see weeds). Surviving in wattle-and-daub "building material for huts, etc." (1808).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof. 2 A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. 3 A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards. 4 A barbel of a fish. 5 A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat. 6 Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person. 7 Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus ''Acacia'', or their bark, used in tanning. vb. (context transitive English) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
WordNet
n. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: lappet]
framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
v. build of or with wattle
interlace to form wattle
Wikipedia
Wattle or wattles may refer to:
Plants- Acacia, genus of plants and shrubs commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa
- Black wattle, common name for several species of acacia
- Callicoma, also known as black wattle, although unrelated to the acacia species
- Golden wattle, Acacia pycantha, species of acacia which is the official floral emblem of Australia
- Sunshine wattle, Acacia terminalis, species of acacia which grows in southeastern Australia
- Wattle (anatomy), fleshy growth hanging from the head or neck of certain animals.
- Wattle bagworm, caterpillar native to Southern Africa
- Wattlebird, member of the honeyeater family, native to Australia
- Wattle-eye, family of small insect-eating birds native to Africa
- Wattle (dermatology), another term for congenital cartilaginous rest of the neck
- Wattle (construction), woven strips of wood forming panels used for fencing or for walling
- Wattle-and-daub, a building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud
- Croatian wattle, decorative pattern found in medieval Croatian art
- Wattle Day, Australian celebration of the first day of spring
- Steam Tug Wattle, vessel formerly in commercial service in Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Australia
A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. A caruncle is defined as 'A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy'.1 Within this definition, caruncles in birds include wattles, dewlaps, snoods and earlobes. Wattles are generally paired structures but may occur as a single structure when it is sometimes known as a dewlap. Wattles are frequently organs of sexual dimorphism. In some birds, caruncles are erectile tissue and may or may not have a feather covering.
Wattles are often such a striking morphological characteristic of animals that it features in their common name. For example, the southern and northern cassowary are known as the double-wattled and single-wattled cassowary respectively, and there is a breed of domestic pig known as the red wattle.
Wattle is a lightweight construction material made by weaving thin branches (either whole, or more usually split) or slats between upright stakes to form a woven lattice. It has commonly been used to make fences and hurdles for enclosing ground or handling livestock. The wattle may be made as loose panels, slotted between timber framing to make infill panels, or it may be made in place to form the whole of a fence or wall. The technique goes back to Neolithic times.
It forms the substructure of wattle and daub, a composite building material used for making walls, in which wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years, and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. This process is similar to modern lath and plaster, a common building material for wall and ceiling surfaces, in which a series of nailed wooden strips are covered with plaster smoothed into a flat surface. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique.
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.