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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Babble :: Babble (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
Wadsetter :: Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.
Comforter :: Comforter (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
Twaddler :: Twaddler (n.) One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed..
Ford :: Ford (v. i.) A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading..
Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..
Swaddling :: Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.
Wad :: Wad (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc..
Waddled :: Waddled (imp. & p. p.) of Waddl.
Scottering :: Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
Clout :: Clout (n.) A swadding cloth.
Swad :: Swad (n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd..
Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.
Swaddle :: Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
Palmidactyles :: Palmidactyles (n. pl.) A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet..
Wallop :: Wallop (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle..
Swad :: Swad (n.) A clown; a country bumpkin.
Ibis :: Ibis (n.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles..
Waddling :: Waddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddl.
Grallatory :: Grallatory (a.) Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders..
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