🦃 A hanging skin fold 🪵 A woven framework 🪢 To weave branches 🌳 An acacia tree

to wattle

1 9.9

To weave thin sticks together to make a fence or wall

verb
/ˈwɑːtəl/

: entramar

During the workshop, participants were shown how to wattle a wall using flexible sticks.

Examples

He learned to wattle a temporary shelter using the available twigs and leaves.
But they can weave and wattle.

Academic text (2016)
The villagers decided to wattle the fence with branches to keep the animals out.

Synonyms

to pleach

vsto wattle

Archaic

9.9

To weave young tree branches together to make a hedge or arch

is for making fences or solid walls from sticks or branches

to plash

vsto wattle

Archaic

9.9

To weave young branches together to make a living fence

is done without cutting and weaves sticks or branches into fences

Compounds

wattle and daub

1 9.9

A way of making walls from woven sticks covered with mud

black wattle

Australian

8.8

An Australian tree whose bark is used to tan leather

golden wattle

Australian

8.0

A small Australian tree with bright yellow, fragrant flowers often grown in gardens

scented wattle

9.9

A thorny tropical shrub or small tree with sweet yellow flowers used in perfume

sweet wattle

9.5

A thorny shrub or small tree with fragrant yellow flowers used to make perfume

silver wattle

Australian

8.2

An evergreen tree with pale shiny bark and yellow flowers

stinking wattle

Australian

9.9

A small Australian tree or shrub with very bad-smelling flowers

Surface Forms

wattle infinitive

wattled past

wattled past participle

wattling present participle

wattles third person singular

Etymology

Wattle as a verb comes from the noun wattle and simply means to weave branches into that fence, much like you 'weave' cloth but with sticks. So to wattle is to interlace sticks or stems to make a structure.