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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : wod-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒd ɪŋ |
Definition of wadding
Origin :- 1570s, from wad (n.). Related: Wadded; wadding.
- As in pad/padding : noun protection
- As in wad : noun ball of something
- As in filling : noun contents
- As in lining : noun interlining
- As in packing : noun material used to fill space
- As in stuffing : noun material used to pad
- As in padding : noun stuffing
- As in filling/filler : noun something that takes up
- As in jam : verb squeeze in; compress
- As in line : verb put covering inside object
- As in stuff : verb load with
- As in crumple : verb make or become wrinkled
- He was wadding his bunk with the hay, while the others looked on rather enviously.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- Where the edges were too sharp they were beaten in by a mallet, or altered by glueing on wadding.
- Extract from : « Practical Taxidermy » by Montagu Browne
- Several times, also, she had been on fire from the wadding which came blazing on board.
- Extract from : « True Blue » by W.H.G. Kingston
- She softened: "Get me some wadding out of the middle drawer," she said.
- Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence
- He flourished in the fourteenth century; according to Wadding, 1376.
- Extract from : « The Grey Friars in Oxford » by Andrew G. Little
- Wadding (VI, p. 48) cites some passages bearing on the date.
- Extract from : « The Grey Friars in Oxford » by Andrew G. Little
- Fill all the loops and bows with wadding as above mentioned.
- Extract from : « Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book » by Eliza Leslie
- She won in a thunderstorm, Rothschild's filly, with wadding in her ears.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- Carefully he pried the wadding from each shell and poured the shot out.
- Extract from : « Trading Jeff and his Dog » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- Wadding was a lawyer, who had thoroughly studied the whole matter.
- Extract from : « Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3) » by Richard Bagwell
Synonyms for wadding
- back
- bear
- bind
- block
- boodle
- break down
- buckle
- buffer
- bunch
- bundle
- bush
- bushing
- capacity batting
- cartridge
- cave in
- cease
- ceil
- center
- choke up
- chunk
- clog
- clog up
- clump
- collapse
- compress
- congest
- content
- contents
- cover
- covering
- cram
- crease
- crimp
- crimple
- crinkle
- crowd
- crush
- cushion
- cylinder
- dressing
- elbow
- encrust
- face
- fall
- fill
- fill to overflowing
- fill to the brim
- filler
- filling
- fold
- force
- fortune
- gathering
- give way
- glut
- go to pieces
- gobble
- gorge
- gormandize
- guts
- guzzle
- halt
- heap
- hunk
- impletion
- incrust
- inlay
- innards
- inner coating
- inner layer
- inside
- insides
- interline
- jam
- jam-pack
- jostle
- layer
- liner
- lining
- lump
- mass
- mint
- mixture
- nugget
- obstruct
- overfill
- overindulge
- overlay
- overstuff
- pack
- packet
- packing
- pad
- padding
- panel
- peanuts
- pile
- plug
- pot
- press
- protection
- pucker
- push
- quilt
- quilting
- ram
- ream
- refill
- reinforce
- replenishment
- rimple
- roll
- ruck
- rumple
- sate
- satiate
- screw
- scrunch
- sheath
- sheathing
- shim
- shove
- shrivel
- slew
- squash
- squeeze
- squish
- stall
- stick
- stow
- stuff
- stuffing
- Styrofoam
- tamp
- throng
- tuft
- wad
- wadding
- wainscot
- wainscoting
- wall
- waste
- wedge
- wrinkle
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