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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒtl̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: wŏtʹl, IPA(key): /ˈwɑtl̩/, [ˈwɑ.ɾl̩]
- Rhymes: -ɒtəl
- Homophone: what'll (UK, wine–whine merger)
Noun
[edit]wattle (countable and uncountable, plural wattles)
- A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
- 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 104:
- And there the heathen Prince, Arviragus, / Gave him an isle of marsh whereon to build; / And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore, […]
- 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.
- 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
- The buttons below his waddle open to reveal a ruddy V, tidemark of the sun.
- Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.
- 1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, page 16:
- The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- black wattle (Acacia spp. and Callicoma)
- chinchilla wattle
- Cootamundra wattle
- golden wattle (Acacia pycantha)
- sallee wattle
- savannah wattle
- savanna wattle
- silver wattle
- spurwing wattle
- sunshine wattle (Acacia terminalis)
- wattle and daub
- wattle bagworm (Kotochalia junodi)
- wattlebird (Anthochaera)
- wattle-eye (Platysteiridae)
- wattle turkey
Translations
[edit]construction of branches and twigs
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fold of skin hanging from the neck of birds
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fleshy appendage on the neck of goat
loose hanging skin
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Australian acacia
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Verb
[edit]wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)
- (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
- (transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.
Further reading
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