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单词 wattling
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wattlingn.

/ˈwɒtlɪŋ/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s wattelyng(e, -ing, Middle English–1500s watlyng(e, -ing(e, 1500s wadling.
Etymology: < wattle v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of wattle v.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with other materials > [noun] > with wattle-work
wattling1573
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 35v To arbor begunne, & quick setted about, no poeling nor waddling till set be far out.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 60 Our second house was..made for the watteling much after the same manner.
1916 Contemp. Rev. July 96 Plaiting, braiding, weaving and wattling, all of which bring into existence very definite rudiments of pattern.
2. concrete.
a. An assemblage of rods or laths interlaced with branches, twigs, osiers, or the like, serving as the material of a wattled wall, partition, fence, etc., or as the framework of a ‘wattle-and-daub’ building. Also, in generalized sense, wattle as a structural material.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [noun] > material of interwoven branches
wattlesc900
wattling1336
frith-work1808
1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 349 Item pro amputacione xxiiij carcatarum virgarum pro ‘wattelyngs’, et pro cariagio earundem de bosco usque castrum.
1336 Cal. Documents Scotl. (1887) III. 351 [similarly but] ‘watlyngs’.
1431–40 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 8 Et in virgis emptis pro watlyng sprendelles et ligaminibus, xd. ob.
c1468 in Archaeologia (1846) 31 336 On every tarage a tree of gold... The tarage before reherssid, wateled wt gold, wthin the wattelinge abowt the said tre, and every of them fylled wt meatis divers.
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Crates, grates of yron or wood. They be also the watling of a wal or house klayed or thatched.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 131 Watlings, gabbions, and all other things needfull, at batteries, and besieging.
1658 in J. Campbell Balmerino (1899) 410 Ane new cupill, cabers, watlings, door-cheeks, half doore.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. v. 115 The side Walls are Mud or Watling, plaister'd on the inside.
1763 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1770) IV. xxxvii. 497 The houses [c1560] were nothing but watling, plastered over with clay.
1837 J. E. Murray Summer in Pyrenees I. 63 A wattling of willow boughs, about eight feet square.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 149 Fig. 66 shows the handle and rim of what is called the Scotch basket... Fig. 67 shows the same skeleton, with..the wattling or woven work commenced.
1909 Stacpoole Pools of Silence xxx Adams had swung the man aloft and dashed him against the wall with such force, that the wattling gave way and the plaster fell in flakes.
in extended use.1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 153 He threw an asshen dart, Which brake the watling of his ribbes [L. laterum cratem].
b. Boughs and twigs for use in wattle-work.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for fencing
wattling1622
hurdle-wood1649
paling1664
withering1852
1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. v. 98 To hew downe boughes and young watlings to make Cabins.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 19/2 Thatchers Termes...Watlings iusted of Laths.
1763 ‘T. Insulanus’ Treat. Second Sight 26 Going..to cut wattling for creels.
1809 tr. Molina's Hist. Chili I. 128 The husbandmen..employ it [a vine] both in making large baskets, and as wattling for their hedges.
1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. I. x. 295 To cut the stakes and watlings for the stoccado.
3. In combinations.
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14.. Master of Game etc. (Douce 335) f. 73 Ony smal wode, that is to wete, blatrons, sparres, watlyngroddes, or ony other smal wode.
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