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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