<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Often wattles</li><li>a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.</li><li>wattles, a number of poles laid on a roof to hold thatch</li><li>(in Australia) any of various acacias whose shoots and branches were used by the early colonists for wattles, now valued especially for their bark, which is used in tanning</li><li>a fleshy lobe or appendage hanging down from the throat or chin of certain birds, as the domestic chicken or turkey</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) wat·tled, wat·tling</li><li>to bind, wall, fence, etc., with wattle or wattles</li><li>to roof or frame with or as if with wattles</li><li>to form into a basketwork; interweave; interlace</li><li>to make or construct by interweaving twigs or branches: to wattle a fence</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>built or roofed with wattle or wattles</li></ul>