[f. WATTLE v. + -ED1.]
1. Constructed of wattle-work.
1548. Elyot’s Dict., Concratitius, made of hurdels or suche lyke thynges, watled. Ibid. (1552), Cratitij parietes, wattled walles made lyke hurdles, as they vse in the countrey.
1677. in Verney Mem. (1907), II. 308. Wattled walls only Daubed over with Mortar.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 124. Make use of wattled Hurdles and Fascines.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, I. 361. Nor ope the wattled fence, while balmy morn Lies on the reeking pasture.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 674. The flatted hurdle … is much preferable to the close-rodded or wattled kind, as being much more durable.
1813. T. Rudge, Agric. Glouc., 386. Wattled ditto [i.e., hurdles], 8s. per dozen.
1827. Scott, Highl. Widow, v. Awhile she paused at the wattled door.
1834. Pringle, Afr. Sk., vii. 233. His reed hut or wattled cabin generally placed on the side of some narrow ravine.
1836. Mrs. C. P. Traill, Backw. Canada, 309. The fence is a rude basket or hurdle-work … called by the country folk wattled fence.
1871. Standard, 12 April, 6. The weir is a wattled weir, and had the effect of preventing the passage of fish up the river.
1883. Symonds, Ital. Byways, ii. 30. Wattled waggons drawn by oxen.
b. Said of a sheepfold. Chiefly poet. in wattled cote, pen, fold.
1634. Milton, Comus, 344. Might we but hear The folded flocks pen’d in their watled cotes.
1730. Thomson, Summer, 395. The gather’d flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press’d.
1753. T. Warton, Ode Approach Summer, 99. His wattled cotes the shepherd plants.
1830. Tennyson, Ode to Memory, 66. The livelong bleat Of the thick-fleeced sheep from wattled folds.
1853. M. Arnold, Scholar Gipsy, 2. Go, Shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes.
1886. Lowell, 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 sb.2 1 b). Wattled work = wattle-work (WATTLE sb.2 1 c).
1866. Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. i. 14. The first hundred yards has 90 square houses of *wattled daub.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 67. Made with Beds of Earth and *Watled-work. Ibid., 68. Hurdles, or Watled-work.
1871. W. B. Lord & Baines, Shifts Camp Life, etc., vi. 382. The manner of making a piece of wattled work for a door, a window shutter, [etc.].
1878. Maclear, Celts, vii. 105. Being erected of stone, instead of the usual wood or wattled work.
d. Of cloth: Made by plaiting. rare.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., xiii. 365. The wattled cloth of the Swiss lake dwellings.
2. Of branches, twigs, etc.: Interlaced.
1777. Mason, 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.
1868. Miss Yonge, Cameos, I. xlii. 363. Making a multitude of hurdles of wattled boughs to be laid across the softer places of the bog.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, xviii. 338. [The huts] of the Numidians … were made of wattled reeds thatched with straw.
† b. Of hair: Tangled. Obs. rare–1.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 1218. Their [sc. the wind-gods’] wattled locks gush’d all in Rivers out.
3. Enclosed in a sheepfold, folded.
1898. Meredith, Odes Fr. Hist., 82. And all his host A wattled flock, the foeman’s dogs between!
