Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wattled fabric or structure; wickerwork.
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Examples
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An assembly hall of light wattlework had been built onto the mouth of one of the large caves.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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The walls were formed either of stout planks laid together vertically or horizontally, or else of posts at a short distance from one another, the interstices being filled up with wattlework daubed with clay.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Because, honestly: how can you watch, as we did this week, our doughty farm-dwellers mend the sheep fence with wattlework, whip lard and rosewater together to soothe chapped hands, work the
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