Wad

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  • noun. A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.
  • noun. A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.
  • noun. A disk, as of felt or paper, used to keep the powder and shot in place in a shotgun cartridge.
  • noun. A large amount.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sizable roll of paper money.
  • noun. A considerable amount of money.
  • noun. An ejaculation of semen.
  • transitive verb. To compress into a wad.
  • transitive verb. To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.
  • transitive verb. To insert a wad into (a firearm).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To form into a wad or into wadding; press together into a mass, as fibrous material.
  • To line with wadding, as a garment, to give more roundness or fullness to the figure, keep out the cold, render soft, or protect in any way.
  • To pad; stuff; fill out with or as with wadding.
  • To put a wad into, as the barrel of a gun; also, to hold in place by a wad, as a bullet.
  • noun. A small bunch or wisp of rags, hay, hair, wool, or other fibrous material, used for stuffing, for lessening the shock of hard bodies against each other, or for packing.
  • noun. Specifically, something, as a piece of cloth, paper, or leather, used to hold the powder or bullet, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
  • noun. In ceramics, a small piece of finer clay used to cover the body of an inferior material in some varieties of earthenware; especially, the piece doubled over the edge of a vessel.
  • A Scotch form of would.
  • A Scotch form of wed.
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of woad.
  • noun. An impure earthy ore of manganese, which consists of manganese dioxid associated with the oxid of iron, cobalt, or copper. When mixed with linseed-oil for a paint it is apt to take fire. Also called bog-manganese, earthy manganese.
  • noun. Same as plumbago.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding.
  • transitive verb. To insert or crowd a wad into; ; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
  • noun. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
  • noun. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
  • noun. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
  • noun. a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.
  • noun. An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
  • noun. Plumbago, or black lead.
  • noun. Woad.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • noun. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • noun. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • noun. an ejaculate of semen.
  • noun. Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits
  • verb. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • verb. to wager
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small mass of soft material
  • noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • noun. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
  • verb. compress into a wad
  • verb. crowd or pack to capacity
  • Word Usage
    "It wad hurt me sair tae think a bit title wad mak 'a difference to ma friends."
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    Equivalent
    wadd  
    Form
    wadding  waded  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bit  bite  material  morsel  stuff  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Assad  Cod  Dodd  Fahd  God  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bale  ball  bit  bundle  clump  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    wadded  wadding  
    verb-form
    wadded  wadding  wads