Wattle

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson.

2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

3. A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

4. Barbel of a fish.

5. The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To bind with twigs.

2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.