Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wattle \Wat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wattled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wattling}.]
   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.

Wattle \Wat"tle\, n. [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering,
   wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. {Wallet}.]
   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. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly
          colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or
          throat of a bird or reptile.
      (b) Barbel of a fish.

   4.
      (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the
          genus {Acacia}, used in tanning; -- called also
          {wattle bark}.
      (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See
          {Savanna wattle}, under {Savanna}.

   {Wattle turkey}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Brush turkey}.

Wattle \Wat"tle\, n.
   1. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used
      for walls, fences, and the like. ``The pailsade of
      wattle.'' --Frances Macnab.

   2. (Bot.) 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.

Source : WordNet®

wattle
     n 1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin
          hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds
          (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: {lappet}]
     2: framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to
        form a fence
     v 1: build of or with wattle
     2: interlace to form wattle