\Wat"tle\, n.
1. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used
   for walls, fences, and the like. ``The pailsade of
   wattle.'' --Frances Macnab.
2. (Bot.) In Australasia, any tree of the genus {Acacia}; --
   so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early
   settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the
   split stems of the slender species.

\Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering,
wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. {Wallet}.]
1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
         And there he built with wattles from the marsh A
         little lonely church in days of yore. --Tennyson.
2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly
       colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or
       throat of a bird or reptile.
   (b) Barbel of a fish.
4.
   (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the
       genus {Acacia}, used in tanning; -- called also
       {wattle bark}.
   (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See
       {Savanna wattle}, under {Savanna}.
{Wattle turkey}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Brush turkey}.

\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.