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Example sentences for "wattling"

Lexicographically close words:
watter; wattir; wattle; wattled; wattles; wattmeter; waue; waued; wauering; waues
  1. There is no wattling back of the toe hole, and one pair of longitudinal strands at the side of the latter is not doubled on the left shoe.

  2. Similar effects have been produced by the erection of plank fences, and even of simple screens of wattling and reeds.

  3. Consolidation of the scarps of the ravines by grading and wattling and establishing barriers, sometimes of solid masonry, but generally of fascines or any other simple materials at hand, across the bed of the stream.

  4. The Druidesses, with dishevelled hair, fastened sacred boughs to the wattling of the ramparts.

  5. A few minutes more and they would have been swept down by the multitude of the assailants; the last comers were urging on those in front of them, and the wattling and the warriors who defended it would have been borne down by the tide.

  6. Three of the towers took fire, as well as the wattling of the ramparts.

  7. The wattling gave way, and the assailants rushed on to the rampart walk.

  8. Many of the defenders were preparing to cross the debris of the wattling and get down the escarpment to throw themselves upon the enemy, but the Brenn stopped them, threatening with death any who should quit the rampart.

  9. The rampart walk of the vallum was raised three feet above the level of the camp, and was furnished with a cresting of stakes with wattling to retain the earth on the parapet (see Fig.

  10. It became the scene of an indescribable melee; those who were defending the wattling which closed the breach dared not make any openings for their brethren-in-arms whom they saw engaged with the enemy.

  11. There I was at the bottom of the pit, with half the wattling on top of me.

  12. Three men should make a hurdle in 2 hours, 2 wattling and the third preparing the rods.

  13. Hammer the wattling down snug on the pickets with a block of wood and continue until the top is reached.

  14. The wires should be made fast to the pickets after the wattling is done.

  15. If the brush is small, uniform, and pliable, pairing will make a better wattling than randing.

  16. The wattling is randed or slewed from the form up.

  17. The form is then dropped down, the gabion inverted and the wattling completed.

  18. The term wattling is applied to such constructions as employ by interlacing, plaiting, etc.

  19. Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts.

  20. Another somewhat usual use of wattling is mentioned by various authors.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wattling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.