Verb (used with object) : to wattle a fence. From Dictionary.com.
Within his wattles was a tool of creation, and here he was entertaining fools. From Wordnik.com. [The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber] Reference
He must weigh fifty pounds ef he weighs an ounce, an 'his wattles are a wonder to look at. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods] Reference
Referring to the infestation of foreign plants, such as wattles and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The projects were formed to control alien vegetation such as wattles, pines and hakea in bushes, dams and rivers. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mimosas, or Acacia, comprising amajor part of the Australian scrub, are called "wattles". From Wordnik.com. [HeraldTimesOnline.com] Reference
These birds get their name from the red folds or "wattles" of skin that hang from their neck. From Wordnik.com. [KUSA-TV -] Reference
That would explain the beak and the wattles, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [Customer Service Circa 2017] Reference
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
The real issue here, Sven, isn't the wattles or the beak. From Wordnik.com. [Customer Service Circa 2017] Reference
There was others without scruple pelting wattles at poor Maggy. From Wordnik.com. [The Galway Races] Reference
Mrs. Borcherding was a swollen mass of fat, wrinkles, and wattles. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
He cocked his head at me and the wattles around his beak jiggled horribly. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
King Albus bent his wattles to the ground, and gazed at his rival with one eye. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Now we know they can't even wrap their wattles around the "loyal opposition" thing. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown: Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen] Reference
The comb and wattles become pale and bloodless, the feathers rough, dry and brittle. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
They compared notes about strange brands and wattles that they each found this year. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The Black Spanish Hen said it made her wattles tingle to hear him find fault with them. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Farmyard People] Reference
The wattles were thick and fat and somehow disgusting and threatening at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
It had huge purple teeth, dangling green wattles, a giant slurpy tongue, and three black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
But the bird was now tethered behind a log, so that only his head and red wattles could appear. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
His feathers were beautiful, and the bright red of his comb and wattles showed that he was well. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Farmyard People] Reference
The wattles at his throat shook as his head nodded-a gesture the Zenobians and humans had in common. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
Over the boardings let there be placed wattles very closely woven of thin twigs as fresh as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Fleshy orange-red wattles hung about his beak, reminding me both of dangling meat and cancerous growths. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
She had long, slate blue legs, and her head featured sharp golden-brown eyes, small red comb, and wattles. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference
Between the trunks of the wattles they could see the forms of a party of blackfellows, watching them intently. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
It etched two tiny lines at each corner of his fine mouth and wrinkled his chin wattles into his bright bow tie. From Wordnik.com. [html]
The combs and wattles (those things on the top and bottom of their heads, respectively) are an angry, bright red. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Coup] Reference
The biographer of Columba describes his followers as collecting wattles for the construction of their first edifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
For instance, in the British Isles, the building in earliest times was with wattles: practically walls of basket work. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Down in the gully where the growth was thicker, and where the wattles and willows made many a fairy grove, a small creek ran. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
England, and now and then we passed a lonely farmhouse built of stones and enclosed in a rather ineffective defence of wattles. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
All its imitation feathers, and even more its red wattles, seemed to wish every man and woman, boy and girl, a Merry Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children] Reference
Its skin hung in wrinkles and wattles and tags, its thin shoulders hunched forward and its knobby spine curved in a perpetual stoop. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
The buildings, both ecclesiastical and civil, of the early Christians of the North were, as we have seen, made of wattles or wicker-ware. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
They feared it, for they had no chance on it, as their vessels were often merely hides stretched on wattles, resembling enlarged coracles. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
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