wattle and daub

noun

1. Also wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
2. a form of wall construction consisting of upright posts or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches and plastered with a mixture of clay and straw.

wattle and daub

noun

1. 1. a form of wall construction consisting of interwoven twigs plastered with a mixture of clay, lime, water, and sometimes dung and chopped straw
   2. ( as modifier )

      a wattle-and-daub hut

Word History and Origins

Origin of wattle and daub¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub.

From Literature

A computer that old may as well be made of wattle and daub.

From Washington Post

The house … had an earth floor and its end walls may have been finished with wattle and daub.

From Nature

The wattle and daub cottages nearly always got burned, and had to be rebuilt afterwards with much profanity.

From Literature

Once used in masonry as wattle and daub, where panels of woven branches were daubed with mud or dung, wattle work is still useful to a gardener setting out to build a fence.

From Washington Post