watled

Updated: May 20, 2025

might we but hear The folded flocks penn'd in their watled cotes, Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops, Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames, 'Twould be some solace yet, some little cheering In this close dungeon of innumerous boughs. In the morning, Emily was relieved from her fears for Annette, who came at an early hour.

Ann Ward Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho

The sides which are made of small Posts, watled with Boughs, are not above 4 foot and a half high: the Ridge-pole is about 7 or 8 foot high. They have a Fire-place at one end of their Houses, and Boards placed on the Ground to lye on.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the: Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of: The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books: and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial: and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their: Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of: the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690