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Definition:branches or other material that is woven together to build fences, walls, etc.
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I returned home, and consulting with the sorrel nag, we went into a copse at some distance, where I with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some larger pieces.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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There are in it about forty or fifty houses and one church. The houses are mean and low, the walls generally made of mud or wattled, and their sides made up with boards: they are all thatched with palm or palmetto leaves.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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