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Перевод: wattle

[существительное]
плетень ; сережка у птиц; бородка ; австралийская акация; австралийская мимоза;
[глагол]
строить из плетня; плести

Тезаурус:

1. The native Britons had lived in groups of round thatched houses whose walls were made of wattle and daub - mud plastered between woven branches.
2. Wattle fencing is quite a feature of this part of the garden, making an excellent rural background for climbers.
3. Hurdles of metal, split oak, or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips (although they are laborious for the latter.
4. The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges.
5. In the mid sixth century, St Ciaran with seven followers had arrived at Clonmacnoise by water and built a wattle church and beehive huts, the foundation of the holy city.
6. English painters who complain about the persistence of green should imagine a landscape that for hours on end is the bright colour of Heinz tomato soup, spiked with the burnt black twigs of the wattle bushes and bottlebrush trees.
7. Back towards the house, a wattle fence divides off the western side of the garden.
8. The peasantry, which comprised the majority of the population in the Middle Ages, had no such comfort, for instance: a small hole left in the wattle and daub, covered with a piece of cloth to keep out the worst of the weather represented a "window" to them.
9. The backfill material contained a considerable amount of pottery, which was stylistically attributable to the second half of the eleventh century AD, along with much burnt clay or daub thought to derive from wattle walls.
10. Alternatively, pairs of vertical timbers in holes in the ground clasped horizontal members with wattle and daub infilling, or the uprights were staggered with panels of interwoven wattles between them.
11. The sun was low by now, obscured behind the wattle of leafless branches, and the air had a chilly edge.
12. Surveys of houses showing this kind of distress should be left strictly to the structural engineer, as should prefabricated concrete houses, and those made of wattle and clay (there are some!).
13. The back garden was a small square of lawn bordered by rhododendrons which, in turn, were surrounded by a high wattle fence.