Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 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 Informal A large amount.
- noun A sizable roll of paper money.
- noun A considerable amount of money.
- noun Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.
- transitive verb To compress into a wad.
- transitive verb To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding.
- transitive verb To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.
- transitive verb To insert a wad into (a firearm).
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from 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 obsolete Woad.
from 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 andpellets in ashotgun cartridge . - noun vulgar, slang an
ejaculate ofsemen . - noun mineralogy Any black
manganese oxide orhydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of variousore deposits - verb To
crumple orcrush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball. - verb Ulster to
wager
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It wad hurt me sair tae think a bit title wad mak 'a difference to ma friends.
Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910
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The FliteControl wad is configured 180° compared to standard wads so the cup flares at the rear instead of the front.
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And what really gets liberal panties in a wad is when you point out that fascism is a form of socialism too, and that Democrats share far more similarities with classic fascism than anything else, and more so than any other political group.
Democrats = Socialists. Obama Is A Socialist. « Tai-Chi Policy 2010
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The FliteControl wad is configured 180° compared to standard wads so the cup flares at the rear instead of the front.
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Even if I did support him, I would not get my panties in wad if someone pronounced his name incorrectly, which was what my comment was about.
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In my experience, hunting with deer slugs for the last 48 years, the original Brenneke slug with screwed-on felt wad, is the best deer getter out there.
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Although ported tubes offer very little in the way of recoil reduction, despite manufacturers 'claims, the ports do help strip the wad from the shot column, preventing it from ramming into your pattern.
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He's led his grey gelding into the stable the noo, and niver a word wad he say to me or he gaed oot.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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For I'm weary wi 'the hunting, and fain wad lie down.
Lord Ronald 1898
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Muir wi 'Mr. Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can --- I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life
Rob Roy 1887
ruzuzu commented on the word wad
"2. 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. For ordinary double- or single-barreled shot-guns, wads are disks of felt, leather, or pasteboard cut by machinery or by a hand-tool, often indented to allow passage of air in ramming home, and sometimes specially treated with a composition which helps to keep the barrels from fouling." --Cent. Dict.
May 5, 2011