Verb (used with object) : to wattle a fence. From Dictionary.com.
So he entered a dark wattled house and sat down to talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
The wattled walls hurled back a deafening chorus of war cries. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference
The village, a few wattled huts with conical roofs, stands by its side. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The remnants of board and wattled fences projected sadly here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
It takes place in a circular corral of wattled brush opening towards the east. From Wordnik.com. [The White Hour] Reference
Lechwe are vital for maintaining bird habitat, and associate with wattled crane. From Wordnik.com. [Western Zambezian grasslands] Reference
On the stump next to hers, a red-wattled croaker bird perched, watching me intently. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
No. He had gone out by a back way, probably made by himself, through the wattled wall. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
And the young Fisherman leapt up, and left his wattled house, and ran down to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference
It was simply made of stakes driven into the ground, between which were wattled branches. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
When petals fly and leaves fall, then, each time, for my delight, here at my wattled door. From Wordnik.com. [Sekidera Komachi] Reference
The delta is extremely important for numerous waterbirds, including the threatened wattled crane. From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian coastal flooded savanna] Reference
In the salt-marshes live the lepers; they have houses of wattled reeds, and none may come nigh them. From Wordnik.com. [The Young King] Reference
Occasionally one or two sides are wattled up with canes, or closed with poles placed closely together. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay, and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829] Reference
They live in wattled huts, a shelter used in common with their flocks, and often the woods are their home. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference
The ecoregion also harbors the largest bird in the Moluccas, the two-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius). From Wordnik.com. [Seram rain forests] Reference
Here there were said to be 3000 students living in separate, wattled huts and receiving open-air instruction. From Wordnik.com. [3. Ireland] Reference
These include: wattled crane (Grus carunculatus, VU), slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula, VU), corncrake (Crex crex, VU). From Wordnik.com. [Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands] Reference
'Five pieces of gold,' he said, 'and my nets, and the wattled house where I live, and the painted boat in which I sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference
These include wattled crane (Grus carunculatus, VU), corncrake (Crex crex, VU), and lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU). From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Miombo woodlands] Reference
"Eight species, including the wattled crane, lappet-faced vulture and the Cape parrot are already extinct ...," it states. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They were a female wattled crane, 200 red-bellied piranhas and eight "ouvolk" or sun-gazer lizards, it said in a statement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
There were cocks and hens in wattled coops, piglets swaddled like babies to keep them quiet, and babies no one could quieten. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Hard by this stately demesne is a humbler tenement, built of wattled logs, but showing signs of comfort and thrift all about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
Then through an opening in the great war-hedge of Buea, a growing stockade some fifteen feet high, the lower part of it wattled. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
This, garrisoned by forty soldiers of the California Column, was of log and willow houses, the latter wattled and daubed with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
The only native mammal on the islands is Gould's wattled bat (Chalinolobus gouldii) which is locally very rare or possibly extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Norfolk Island subtropical forests] Reference
The globally threatened wattled crane Grus carunculatus (VU), corncrake Crex crex (VU), and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni (VU) occur. From Wordnik.com. [Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania] Reference
He tried to imagine a world in which his friends and he — his mother! — grew old like Savi, like this mottled and wattled hologram. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The inside of the slab walls and chimney we wattled with mud and laths, which we split up, and plastered over with mud and chopped grass. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
First we drove strong stakes into the earth round about, which we wattled with boughs as thick as might be, beating them down very close. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference
She arrived, on a litter, neatly enough made with wattled branches, on which she lay, with her youngest child, a prince of three weeks old. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
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