Definition of wattle

• n. - A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
• n. - A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
• n. - A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
• n. - Barbel of a fish.
• n. - The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
• n. - The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
• v. t. - To bind with twigs.
• v. t. - To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
• v. t. - To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.