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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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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..

Cultirostres :: Cultirostres (n. pl.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc..

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..

Howadji :: Howadji (n.) A traveler.

Twattle :: Twattle (n.) Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

Seesawad :: Seesawad (imp. & p. p.) of Seesa.

Howadji :: Howadji (n.) A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.

Wadies :: Wadies (pl. ) of Wad.

Wad :: Wad (n.) Woad.

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

Wader :: Wader (n.) One who, or that which, wades..

Quilt :: Quilt (v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat..

Wad :: Wad (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton..

Wadd :: Wadd (n.) Plumbago, or black lead..

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.

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..

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

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

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