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1. A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.

2. A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.

a. A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.

b. A disk, as of felt or paper, used to keep the powder and shot in place in a shotgun cartridge.

4. Informal A large amount: a wad of troubles.

5. Informal

a. A sizable roll of paper money.

b. A considerable amount of money.

v. wad·ded, wad·ding, wads

v.tr.

1. To compress into a wad.

2. To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding.

a. To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.

b. To insert a wad into (a firearm).

v.intr.

To form into a wad.

[Origin unknown.]

wad¹

1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing

2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery)

a. a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc., pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon

b. a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc., used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge

3. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes

4. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) US and Canadian slang a large quantity, esp of money

5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Brit dialect a bundle of hay or straw

6. Brit military slang a bun char and a wad

vb wads, wadding, wadded

1. to form (something) into a wad

2. (tr) to roll into a wad or bundle

3. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (tr)

a. to hold (a charge) in place with a wad

b. to insert a wad into (a gun)

4. (tr) to pack or stuff with wadding; pad

[from Late Latin wadda; related to German Watte cotton wool]

wadder n

wad²

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas

[of unknown origin]

Wad a little amount; a tuft or bundle; a heap or swathe.

Examples: wad of banknotes, 1899; of beans, 1856; of clovergrass, 1750; of cotton (a plug), 1861; of greenbacks (U. S. money); of groans; of hay, 1596; of hemp, 1799; of linen (to carry on the head), 1752; of lupins, 1601; of money; of peas, 1620; of reeds, 1886; of straw, 1573; of tobacco; of tow; of wheat, 1763.

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Noun	1.	wad - a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
	2.	wad - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude deluge, flood, inundation, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" haymow - a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
	3.	wad - a wad of something chewable as tobacco chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid bite, morsel, bit - a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
Verb	1.	wad - compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" compact, pack, bundle arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" compact, pack - have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" puddle - work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
	2.	wad - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" chock up, cram, jampack, ram, jam stuff - cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" cram - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"

wad

noun

1. bundle, roll, bankroll (U.S. & Canad.), pocketful a wad of banknotes

2. mass, ball, lump, hunk, piece, block, plug, chunk a wad of cotton wool

3. plug, twist, chew, quid He spat out a great wad of tobacco.

Translations

wad [wɒd]

A. N (= stuffing) → taco m, tapón m; (in gun, cartridge) → taco m; [of cotton wool] → bolita f; [of papers] → fajo m, lío m; [of banknotes] → fajo m
wads of money → un dineral

B. VT (stuff) → rellenar (Sew) → acolchar

wad [ˈwɒd] n

[cotton wool, paper] → tampon m

[banknotes] → liasse f

wad

(= compact mass) → Knäuel m or nt; (in gun, cartridge) → Pfropfen m; (of cotton wool etc) → Bausch m; to use something as a wad → etw zum Ausstopfen or als Polster benutzen

(of papers, banknotes) → Bündel nt; he’s got wads of money (inf) → er hat Geld wie Heu (inf)

vt (= secure, stuff) → stopfen; (= squeeze) → zusammenknüllen; (Sew) → wattieren

wad [wɒd] n (of cloth) → tampone m; (of chewing gum, putty) → pallina; (of cotton wool) → batuffolo; (of papers, banknotes) → fascio

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