in Fortification, are made of twigs of willows or osiers interwoven close together, sustained by long stakes. They are made in the figure of a long square, the length being five or six feet, and the breadth three and a half. The closer they are wattled together, the better. They serve to render the batteries firm, or to consolidate the pallage over muddy ditches; or to cover traverses and lodgments for the defence of the workmen against fire-works or stones thrown against them.

The Romans had a kind of military execution for mutineers, called putting to death under the hurdle. The manner of it was this: The criminal was laid at his length in a shallow water, under a hurdle, upon which was heaped stones, and so pressed down till he was drowned.

in Husbandry, certain frames made either of split timber, or of hazel-rods wattled together, to serve for gates in inclosures, or to make sheepfolds, &c.