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Wattle

verb

(past & past part. wattled; pres. part. wattling)

Build of or with wattle.

Interlace to form wattle.

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"Wattle" Quotes from Famous Books

... little village hard by. The village, like all the numerous other ones that we came to in the next few days, was inclosed in a zareba, or wall of tangled thorn branches that encircled the village. Within the wall were a number of low houses, six feet high, built of mud and wattle; and within the houses, spilling over plentifully, were large numbers of children and babies and a few women. A gateway of tangled boughs led into the inclosure, while in one part of the village were the curious woven wickerwork granaries in which the community ...

— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon

... that the gorgeous sunset was finished and the sky had grown grey with night before we reached the foot of the koppie. Yet the last rays of the sinking orb had shown me something as they died. There on the slope of the hill stood some mud and wattle houses, such as I had ordered to be built, and near to them several white-capped wagons. Only I did not see any smoke rising from those houses as there should have been at this hour of the day, when ...

— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard

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