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Wads

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Noun

1. dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads

a large number or amount

Example Sentences:
'made lots of new friends'
'she amassed stacks of newspapers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Wads

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noun
1. 
a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing
2. 
a. 
a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon
b. 
a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge
3. 
a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes
4. US and Canadian slang
a large quantity, esp of money
5. British dialect
a bundle of hay or straw
6. British military slang
a bun
char and a wad
verbWord forms: wads, wadding or wadded
7. 
to form (something) into a wad
8. (transitive)
to roll into a wad or bundle
9. (transitive)
a. 
to hold (a charge) in place with a wad
b. 
to insert a wad into (a gun)
10. (transitive)
to pack or stuff with wadding; pad
noun
a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas

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Wads

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noun
1. 
a small, soft mass or ball, as a handful of cotton, crumpled paper, etc.
2. 
a lump or small, compact mass (of something)
a wad of chewing tobacco
3. 
a mass of soft or fibrous material used for padding, packing, stuffing, etc.
4. 
a plug of hemp, tow, paper, etc. stuffed against a charge to keep it firmly in the breech of a muzzleloading gun or in a cartridge
5.  US, Informal
a roll of paper money
6.  US, Slang
a large amount, esp. of money
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈwadded or ˈwadding
7. 
to compress into a wad
8.  US
to roll up (paper, etc.) into a wad
9. 
a. 
to plug with a wad
b. 
to force or stuff
to wad oakum into a crack
10. 
to line or pad with or as with wadding
11. 
to hold (a charge) in place by a wad
verb
Scottish
would

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Wads

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n.
1. A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.
2. A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.
3.
a. A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.
b. A disk, as of felt or paper, used to keep the powder and shot in place in a shotgun cartridge.
4. Informal A large amount: a wad of troubles.
5. Informal
a. A sizable roll of paper money.
b. A considerable amount of money.
6. Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.
tr.v. wad·ded, wad·ding, wads
1. To compress into a wad: wad a candy wrapper.
2. To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding: wad a keyhole.
3.
a. To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.
b. To insert a wad into (a firearm).

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