Definition of: wattle

(wot′l) noun
1. A frame of rods or twigs woven together; a hurdle or other wickerwork.
2. A twig or withe, especially as used for interweaving with others; also, collectively, material for fences, hurdles, roofs, etc.
3. A naked, fleshy process, often wrinkled and brightly colored, hanging from the throat of a bird or snake.
4. A pendent fold of skin on the throat or neck of some domestic swine.
5. A barbel of a fish.
6. Any one of various acacias of Australia, Tasmania, and South Africa: so called by the early colonists, who used the branches to make hurdles.
7. plural Rods for supporting thatch on a roof.
—v.t. ·tled, ·tling
1. To weave or twist, as twigs, into a network.
2. To form, as baskets, by intertwining flexible twigs.
3. To bind together with wattles.
—adjective Made of or covered with wattles; formed by wattling. [OE watul]