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wad
An amorphous, compact mass.
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noun
An amorphous, compact mass.
“Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.”
A substantial pile (normally of money).
“With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan”
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
A sandwich.
An ejaculation of semen.
verb
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
“She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.”
To wager.
To insert or force a wad into.
“to wad a gun”
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
“to wad a cloak”
noun
Plumbago, graphite.
Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
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Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
to wad a gun
to wad a cloak
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