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Wattled

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.

Wattled

Wattled \Wat"tled\, a. Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.

The wattled cocks strut to and fro.
--Longfellow.

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wattled
  1. having a wattle v

  2. (en-past of: wattle)

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Usage examples of "wattled".

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.

He led the way through a reptilious swamp and into the fringe of a nispero forest, where they came upon a hut with a roof of corrugated iron and walls of wattled bamboo.

He would go weeks without dreaming of Antonelli, of his gross nose and wattled neck, of the leer with which he would push George into a boiling quicksand and hold him under, till he woke screaming with Omani bending over him in concern.

Its cracked and wrinkled flesh, wattled skin, callused lips, blisters, warts, and array of scars seemed to indicate great age.

Leathery, wizened, a bulky hearing aid in his ear, his thin lipless lower jaw thrust out over a corded, wattled neck, he looked a bit like an angry tortoise.

The question out of the dark did not sound as if it had come from between those wide loose lips, out of the wattled throat.

Soon the dragons' necks rose over the edge of the world, wattled with rainbow purls of matter that dripped and fell with unreal-looking speed.

Bryant tells me that I went out to the riding school that morning wattled like a turkey cock.