Dictionary entry

Wattle (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wat″tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Wattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wattling (?).]

1. To bind with twigs.

2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.