wattle
wattle is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
- noun. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- noun. A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
- noun. Barbel of a fish.
- noun. The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
- noun. The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
- transitive verb. To bind with twigs.
- transitive verb. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
- transitive verb. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
- noun. framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence
- noun. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
- noun. any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
- verb. interlace to form wattle
- verb. build of or with wattle
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