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- Watt - n. - A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
- Wattle - n. - A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
- Wattle - n. - A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- Wattle - n. - A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
- Wattle - n. - Barbel of a fish.
- Wattle - n. - The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
- Wattle - n. - The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
- Wattle - v. t. - To bind with twigs.
- Wattle - v. t. - To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
- Wattle - v. t. - To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
- Wattlebird - n. - Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
- Wattlebird - n. - The Australian brush turkey.
- Wattled - imp. & p. p. - of Wattle
- Wattled - a. - Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.
- Wattling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Wattle
- Wattling - n. - The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.
- Wattmeter - n. - An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.
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