Definitions for wadding

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wadding wad·ding

Spelling: [wod-ing]

IPA: /ˈwɒd ɪŋ/

Wadding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in wadding (addginw).

Definitions for wadding

noun

1. any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
2. material used as wads 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.
5. a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
6. a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
7. a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
8. Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money:
9. a plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
10. British Dialect. a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.

Idioms

1. shoot one's wad, Informal. to spend all one's money: to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm.

verb (used with object)

1. to form (material) into a wad.
2. to roll tightly (often followed by up):
3. to hold in place by a wad:
4. to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
5. to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad:

verb (used without object)

1. to become formed into a wad:

Origin of wadding

First recorded in 1620-30; wad¹ + -ing¹

Examples for wadding

wadding was a lawyer, who had thoroughly studied the whole matter.

Several times, also, she had been on fire from the wadding which came blazing on board.

She softened: "Get me some wadding out of the middle drawer," she said.

He was wadding his bunk with the hay, while the others looked on rather enviously.

wadding (VI, p. 48) cites some passages bearing on the date.

She won in a thunderstorm, Rothschild's filly, with wadding in her ears.

Carefully he pried the wadding from each shell and poured the shot out.

Where the edges were too sharp they were beaten in by a mallet, or altered by glueing on wadding.

He flourished in the fourteenth century; according to wadding, 1376.

Fill all the loops and bows with wadding as above mentioned.