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wadding

[ wod-ing ]

noun

  1. any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
  2. material used as wads wad for guns, cartridges, etc.
  3. Surgery. any large dressing made of cotton or a similar absorbent material that is used to stanch the flow of blood or dress a wound.
  4. a wad or lump.


wadding

/ ˈwɒdɪŋ /

noun

    1. any fibrous or soft substance used as padding, stuffing, etc, esp sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose
    2. a piece of this
  1. material for wads used in cartridges or guns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wadding1

First recorded in 1620–30; wad 1 + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.

From BBC

On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.

If you have areas that look especially grungy, keep the bleach solution pooled there by wadding up short lengths of toilet tissue and pressing them against the stained areas with the toothbrush when it’s loaded with the bleach solution.

Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they’re soft, even slightly yielding.

“Excellent,” giggled Mr. Peckleman, crumbling the thirty-two cards in his hand, wadding them up into one extremely flammable paper ball.

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