wattle

Plural: wattles

Noun

• 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
• any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
• A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
• A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
• A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
• A barbel of a fish.
• A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
• Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
• Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.

Verb

Verb Forms: wattled, wattling, wattles

• To weave branches or twigs into a fence or barrier.
• build of or with wattle
• interlace to form wattle
• To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
• To bind with wattles or twigs.

Examples

• I tried to WATTLE my letters into a strong defensive block on the board.

Synonyms

lappet

Anagrams of wattle