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.
And there he built with wattles from the marsh A
little lonely church in days of yore. --Tennyson.
2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly
colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or
throat of a bird or reptile.
(b) Barbel of a fish.
4.
(a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the
genus {Acacia}, used in tanning; -- called also
{wattle bark}.
(b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See
{Savanna wattle}, under {Savanna}.
{Wattle turkey}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Brush turkey}.
2. (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.