noun
- interwoven sticks and twigs used as building material
- a fleshy fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds
verb
- to build or make using interwoven sticks or branches
Examples
- The cottage walls were made of wattle and daub.
- Traditional fencing was constructed from wattle panels.
- The turkey’s red wattle wobbled as it walked.
- Roosters have prominent wattles beneath their beaks.
- They wattled the fence using flexible willow branches.
- The craftsman wattled a basket from young shoots.