different between wattle vs wattling

English

Etymology

From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?t?l/
• (US) enPR: wät??l, IPA^(key): /?w?t?l/, [?w?.?l?]
• Rhymes: -?t?l
• Homophone: what'll (in some accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wattle (countable and uncountable, plural wattles)

1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Holy Grail

     And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.

2. A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
4. A barbel of a fish.
5. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
6. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
7. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.

Coordinate terms

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)

1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
2. (transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.

Further reading

• wattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

wattle +? -ing

Noun

wattling (countable and uncountable, plural wattlings)

1. An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England (page 188)

     Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.

2. The act of making such a mesh.