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▪ I. wattled, a.|ˈwɒt(ə)ld|
[f. wattle n.2]
Of a bird: Having wattles or a wattle; in Heraldry, having the wattles of a specified tincture distinct from that of the body. Also in parasynthetic formations, as blue-wattled, one-wattled.
1688Holme Armoury iv. iv. (Roxb.) 298/1 A demy cock with wings displaid Gules, Watled and crested, Or. 1777Porny Elem. Her. (ed. 3) Dict., Wattled.., sometimes used in speaking of a Cock whose Wattles or Gills are of a different Tincture, but Jollowped is better. 1782Latham Gen. Syn. Birds II. i. 9 Wattled Stare. Pl. xxxvi. Wattled Starlings. 1785Ibid. III. i. 82 Wattled Heron. Size of the Stork... Inhabits Africa. 1788J. White Jrnl. Voy. N.S. Wales (1790) 144 The Wattled Bee-eater..is the size of a missel thrush, [etc.]. 1809Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 378 Wattled Crow. Corvus carunculatus... Said to be a native of New Zealand. c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. 1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard (1855) 23 The throat of the female being covered with feathers, instead of being naked and wattled. 1854Poultry Chron. II. 336 A Cock (wattled face) and two Hens. 1862Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. II. 220 The Wattled Honey-eater, or Brush Wattle Bird of Australia. 1862Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. 30 The wattled cocks strut to and fro. 1875–84E. L. Layard Birds S. Africa 626 Grus carunculata, Gm. Wattled Crane. 1901Wide World Mag. VIII. 150/2 The scrub is full of wild duck, blue-wattled guinea fowl, partridges [etc.]. 1903Westm. Gaz. 5 Jan. 10/1 The ‘Zoo’ has a new occupant of some importance—the Eastern one-wattled cassowary (Casuarius aurantiacus) from German New Guinea.
†b. Having folds of flesh. Obs. rare—1.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 212, I turning to the shape of bull rebelled against my fo. He stepping to my left side close, did fold his armes about My watled necke [L. induit ille toris a læva parte lacertos].
†c. wattled oval: an oval ring with projecting knobs. (Holme gives a drawing.) Obs. rare—1.
1688Holme Armoury iv. ix. (Roxb.) 383/2 At which coller was hunge the modle of the order on a plate in a wattled ovall a Lilly slipped.
▪ II. wattled, ppl. a.|ˈwɒt(ə)ld|
[f. wattle v. + -ed1.]
1. Constructed of wattle-work.
1548Elyot's Dict., Concratitius, made of hurdels or suche lyke thynges, watled. 1552Ibid., Cratitij parietes, wattled walles made lyke hurdles, as they vse in the countrey. 1677in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 308 Wattled walls only Daubed over with Mortar. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 124 Make use of wattled Hurdles and Fascines. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 361 Nor ope the wattled fence, while balmy morn Lies on the reeking pasture. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 674 The flatted hurdle..is much preferable to the close-rodded or wattled kind, as being much more durable. 1813T. Rudge Agric. Glouc. 386 Wattled hurdles, 8s. per dozen. 1827Scott Highl. Widow v, Awhile she paused at the wattled door. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. vii. 233 His reed hut or wattled cabin generally placed on the side of some narrow ravine. 1836C. P. Traill Backw. Canada 309 The fence is a rude basket or hurdle-work..called by the country folk wattled fence. 1871Standard 12 Apr. 6 The weir is a wattled weir, and had the effect of preventing the passage of fish up the river. 1883Symonds Ital. Byways ii. 30 Wattled waggons drawn by oxen.
b. Said of a sheepfold. Chiefly poet. in wattled cote, wattled pen, wattled fold.
1634Milton Comus 344 Might we but hear The folded flocks pen'd in their watled cotes. 1730Thomson Summer 395 The gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd. 1753T. Watson Ode Approach Summer 99 His wattled cotes the shepherd plants. 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory 66 The livelong bleat Of the thick-fleeced sheep from wattled folds. 1853M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy 2 Go, Shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes. 1886Lowell Democr. etc. (1887) 193 The wattled fold they were rearing here on the edge of the wilderness.
c. wattled daub (rare) = wattle and daub (wattle n.1 1 b). wattled work = wattle-work (wattle n.1 1 c).
1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. i. 14 The first hundred yards has 90 square houses of *wattled daub.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 67 Made with Beds of Earth and *Watled-work. Ibid. 68 Hurdles, or Watled-work. 1871W. B. Lord & Baines Shifts Camp Life vi. 382 The manner of making a piece of wattled work for a door, a window shutter, [etc.]. 1878Maclear Celts vii. 105 Being erected of stone, instead of the usual wood or wattled work.
d. Of cloth: Made by plaiting. rare.
1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. xiii. 365 The wattled cloth of the Swiss lake dwellings.
2. Of branches, twigs, etc.: Interlaced.
1777Mason Engl. Garden iv. 645 A shed of twisting roots and living moss, With rushes thatch'd, with wattled oziers lin'd, He bids them raise. 1868C. M. Yonge Cameos I. xlii. 363 Making a multitude of hurdles of wattled boughs to be laid across the softer places of the bog. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 338 [The huts] of the Numidians..were made of wattled reeds thatched with straw.
†b. Of hair: Tangled. Obs. rare—1.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 1218 Their [sc. the wind-gods'] wattled locks gush'd all in Rivers out.
3. Enclosed in a sheepfold, folded.
1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 82 And all his host A wattled flock, the foeman's dogs between! |