noun / verb
wattle
A framework of interwoven sticks or branches, or to build with it.
The garden fence is made of wattle woven from willow branches.
Etymology
The older noun names interwoven rods or branches. English preserves both the framework itself and the act of building with it.
More examples
- The builders wattle the walls before coating them with clay.
- They wattled the shelter's walls with flexible hazel branches.
- The old cottage has wattle and daub walls.
Forms
wattle · wattles · wattled · wattling