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Definition of wad

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Wad (n.) 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..

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Thenadays :: Thenadays (adv.) At that time; then; in those days; -- correlative to nowadays.

Coot :: Coot (n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica..

Waggle :: Waggle (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle..

Ford :: Ford (v. t.) To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through..

Twaddle :: Twaddle (n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

Babble :: Babble (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

Wade :: Wade (n.) The act of wading.

Waded :: Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wa.

Boatbill :: Boatbill (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

Wadding :: Wadding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wa.

Waddlingly :: Waddlingly (adv.) In a waddling manner.

Twaddy :: Twaddy (n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.

Wader :: Wader (n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves..

Swagged :: Swaddling () a. & n. from Swaddle, v..

Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

Swaddling :: Swaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Swaddl.

Crane :: Crane (n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck..

Macrodactyl :: Macrodactyl (n.) One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.

Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule

Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..