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.
Wattling \Wat"tling\, n. The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.
Made with a wattling of canes or sticks.
--Dampier.
Wiktionary
n. 1 an interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle 2 the act of making such a mesh
Usage examples of "wattling".
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.
He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dimming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.
These, with a large number of stakes of similar size driven in close together, formed a circular cordon around the sun-pole, and over these stakes were stretched elk-skins and buffalo-robes, canvas and blankets, and a wattling of willows and brush.