Synonyms for wattle

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wot-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒt l

Définition of wattle

Origin : "fleshy appendage below the neck of certain birds," 1510s (extended jocularly to human beings, 1560s), of uncertain origin and of doubtful relationship to wattle (n.1).

noun framework

Example sentences :

It is built of oak framework, filled in with “wattle and daub.”
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.
Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius

The wattle hanging from the neck is of a light orange at the tip.
Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston

The walls of the dormitory were constructed in what is well known as "wattle and daub."
Extract from : « Prisoners Their Own Warders » by J. F. A. McNair

For leave to sit by their wattle they demanded contributions of fuel.
Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy

A yeather or yadder seems to be a rod to wattle the stakes with.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 » by Various

I skulked in the scrub as he came up—just behind a clump of wattle.
Extract from : « Colonial Born » by G. Firth Scott

Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle, thatched with brush.
Extract from : « Beyond the Black River » by Robert E. Howard

As a rule this line is broken by the overgrowth of the wattle at the base of the beak.
Extract from : « The Making of Species » by Douglas Dewar

Candanga, met me in the path and gave me a welcome to his house of wattle and daub.
Extract from : « Stanley in Africa » by James P. Boyd

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