wattle and daub
21daub — 1 verb (T) to paint or cover something with a soft substance, without being very careful: faces daubed with black mud 2 noun 1 (U) technical mud or clay used for making walls see also: wattle and daub wattle (2) 2 a small amount of a soft or… …
22Wattle — A mat of woven sticks and weeds. ♦ A wooden frame with spaced vertical rods with horizontal rods woven between alternate ways, used for hurdles, fences, or walls. (Beresford, Maurice and Hurst, John. Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval Village, 139) …
23daub — [14] The ultimate source of daub, Latin dēalbāre, meant literally ‘whiten’. It was derived from the adjective albus ‘white’, ancestor of English albino and album. It developed the specific meaning ‘cover with some white substance, such as… …
24daub — [14] The ultimate source of daub, Latin dēalbāre, meant literally ‘whiten’. It was derived from the adjective albus ‘white’, ancestor of English albino and album. It developed the specific meaning ‘cover with some white substance, such as… …
25wattle — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a interlaced rods and split rods as a material for making fences, walls, etc. b (in sing. or pl.) rods and twigs for this use. 2 an Australian acacia with long pliant branches, with bark used in tanning and golden flowers used as… …
26Wattle — Stakes interwoven with twigs/branches to make a fence or wall; also wattle and daub = the use of mud and clay daubed on a wattle wall …
27wattle — wat|tle [ˈwɔtl US ˈwa:tl] n [: Old English; Origin: watel] 1.) [U] a frame made from sticks woven together ▪ a wattle fence ▪ walls made of wattle and daub (=this frame covered with clay) 2.) the red flesh that grows on the head or neck of some… …
28wattle — wat|tle [ watl ] noun uncount 1. ) a substance used for making walls, consisting of large sticks with small branches between them 2. ) a piece of skin that hangs from the head or neck of some birds wattle and daub a substance used in the past for …
29wattle — noun (U) 1 a material used for making fences consisting of small sticks on a frame of rods 2 wattle and daub a mixture of this material and mud or clay used in the past to make the walls of houses 3 a piece of red flesh that grows from the head… …
30wattle — UK [ˈwɒt(ə)l] / US [ˈwɑt(ə)l] noun [uncountable] 1) a substance used for making walls, consisting of large sticks with small branches between them 2) a piece of skin that hangs from the head or neck of some birds • wattle and daub …
