Wad

n.	1.	Woad.
	1.
	1.	A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
	2.	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.
	3.	A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. Wed hook a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.
v. t.	1.	To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
	2.	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.
n.	1.	(Min.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.

Noun	1.	wad - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" Synonyms: good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, whole lot, whole slew, stack, raft, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight
	2.	wad - a wad of something chewable as tobacco Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid
Verb	1.	wad - compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" Synonyms: compact, pack, bundle
	2.	wad - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, jam

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