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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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