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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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Spoonbill :: Spoonbill (n.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip..

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

Comfort :: Comfort (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

Curlew :: Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill..

Wadding :: Wadding (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made..

Bittern :: Bittern (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species..

Twattle :: Twattle (v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip..

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

Swaddlebill :: Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.

Duck-legged :: Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged..

Unswathe :: Unswathe (v. t.) To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle.

Scottering :: Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.

Palamedeae :: Palamedeae (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds..

Wadsetter :: Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.

Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b)..

Bambino :: Bambino (n.) A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes..

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

Wad :: Wad (v. t.) 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..

Wadset :: Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

Waddler :: Waddler (n.) One who, or that which, waddles..