noun

1. a sort of woven work made of sticks intertwined with twigs or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs
2. Brit., Dialectal
   1. a stick, rod, twig, or wand
   2. a hurdle or framework made of sticks, rods, etc.
3. rods or poles used as the support of a thatched roof
4. Austral. any of various acacias: the flexible branches were much used by early settlers for making wattles
5. a fleshy, wrinkled, often brightly colored piece of skin which hangs from the chin or throat of certain birds, as the turkey, or of some lizards
6. a barbel of a fish
7. a fold or pouch of flesh hanging from the neck or lower part of the jaw

Etymology: ME wattel < OE watul, a hurdle, woven twigs < ? IE *wedh-, to knit, bind < base *(a)we- > weave

adjective

transitive verb wattled -·tled, wattling -·tling

1. to twist or intertwine (sticks, twigs, branches, etc.) so as to form an interwoven structure or fabric
2. to construct (a fence) by intertwining sticks or twigs
3. to build of, or roof, fence, etc. with, wattle