Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wad.
- noun Wads considered as a group.
- noun A soft layer of cotton, wool, or other fibrous material used for padding or stuffing.
- noun Material for gun wads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wads collectively; stuffing; specifically, carded cotton or wool used to line or stuff articles of dress, the surface of the spongy web of carded material being covered with tissue-paper or with a coat of size.
- noun Material for gun-wads.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
- noun Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
wads collectively - noun soft, fibrous
cotton orwool used to make a wad, or as apackaging material
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any material used especially to protect something
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Examples
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The fabric or leather upholstery, combined with polyester wadding, is removable thanks to two lateral zips that give it an original finish.
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On the heavier and better grades of piqué coarse picks called wadding are used to increase the weight, and also to give more prominence to the cord effect.
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To get extra weight without altering the appearance of the face, extra warp yarns, termed wadding ends, are inserted between the face weave and the filling, floating at the back of the rib.
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_Bombast_ was a kind of loose texture not unlike what is now called wadding, used to give the dresses of that time bulk and protruberance, without much increase of weight; whence the same name is given a tumour of words unsupported by solid sentiment.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Her hands seemed to be made of a kind of wadding, she handled everything so lightly and delicately.
Une Vie 2003
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Her hands seemed to be made of a kind of wadding, she handled everything so lightly and delicately.
Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Spanish leather, lined with deer-skin, tanned with the fur on; about the ankles is a kind of wadding under the lining, to keep out wet.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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It is also made into a kind of wadding, and used for the purpose of giving additional warmth to various parts of their clothing.
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'That's not smoke, it's some wadding I'd been using to simulate ectoplasm.
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That's not smoke, it's wadding, which I'd been using to simulate ectoplasm.
chained_bear commented on the word wadding
"WADDING, in gunnery, is the hay, or tow that is rolled up to place upon the charge." (citation in list description)
October 9, 2008