wad

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

wad, n. [See Woad.].

 Woad.  [1913 Webster]

wad, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.].

•  A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

wad, v. t. 

•  To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

wad, n. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wad, n. & v.
--n.
1 a lump or bundle of soft material used esp. to keep things apart or in place or to stuff up an opening.
2 a disc of felt etc. keeping powder or shot in place in a gun.
3 a number of banknotes or documents placed together.
4 Brit. sl. a bun, sandwich, etc.
5 (in sing. or pl.) a large quantity esp. of money.
--v.tr. (wadded, wadding)
1 stop up (an aperture or a gun-barrel) with a wad.
2 keep (powder etc.) in place with a wad.
3 line or stuff (a garment or coverlet) with wadding.
4 protect (a person, walls, etc.) with wadding.
5 press (cotton etc.) into a wad or wadding.

Etymology

perh. rel. to Du. watten, F ouate padding, cotton wool

THESAURUS

wad

accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim, bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump, compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal, ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal, good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk, inlay, interline, jam, jam-pack, jillion, lade, large sum, lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack, packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful, power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring, sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks, stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum, tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight, whole slew

ROGET THESAURUS

wad

Lining

VB line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.