the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Wattle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
(2):
(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; - called also wattle bark.
(3):
(n.) Barbel of a fish.
(4):
(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
(5):
(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
(6):
(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
(7):
(v. t.) To bind with twigs.
(8):
(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.
(9):
(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
(10):
(n.) Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
(11):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wattle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/wattle.html. 1828.
