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Wad   /wɑd/   Listen
noun
Wad  n.  Woad. (Obs.)


Wad  n.  
1.
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
2.
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.
3.
A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
Wad hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.


Wadd, Wad  n.  (Min.)
(a)
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.
(b)
Plumbago, or black lead.


verb
Wad  v. t.  (past & past part. waded; pres. part. wadding)  
1.
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
2.
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.





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"Wad" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last time I'm going to shoot!" cried Laddie, and he took good aim with a large wad of paper which he called ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's • Laura Lee Hope
... off, also our boots and shoes; and a Confederate officer felt very carefully of all our clothing to make sure that nothing was hidden. I "remembered to forget" that I had two ten-dollar greenbacks compressed into a little wad in one corner of my watch fob; and that corner escaped inspection. Dick Turpin never was the richer for that money. They examined suspiciously a pocket edition of the New Testament in the original Greek; but I assured them it was not some diabolical Yankee cipher, ...
— Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons - A Personal Experience, 1864-5 • Homer B. Sprague
... in the gloom, The wind blew like the blast o' doom, The rain upo' the roof abune Played Peter Dick—— Ye wad nae'd licht enough i' the room ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... thegither trimly; Some start awa' wi' saucy pride, And jump out-owre the chimlie Fu' high that night. Jean slips in twa' wi' tentie e'e; Wha 'twas, she wadna tell; But this is Jock, an' this is me, She says in to hersel': He bleez'd owre her, and she owre him, As they wad never mair part; 'Till, fuff! he started up the lum, An' Jean had e'en a sair heart ...
— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen
... for decent trade: I'll wager a' the countryside Wad sweer nae trustier man was made, The ford to soom, the bent to bide. But when it comes to coupin' horse, I'm just like a' that e'er was born; I fling my heels and tak' my course; I'd sell the ...
— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan


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