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
A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc
A wad of something such as paper or cloth is a tight bundle or ball of it. a wad of banknotes. a wad of cotton soaked in cleaning fluid. wadded wadding wad up to press something such as a piece of paper or cloth into a small tight ball
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
{f} plug with cotton wool; line or pad with wadding; hold in place with padding; form into a wad