wad

/wɒd//wɑd/

noun

  1. 1

    An amorphous, compact mass.

    “Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.”
  2. 2

    A substantial pile (normally of money).

    “With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan”
  3. 3

    A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.

  4. 4

    A sandwich.

  5. 5

    An ejaculation of semen.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

    “She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.”
  2. 2

    To wager.

  3. 3

    To insert or force a wad into.

    “to wad a gun”
  4. 4

    To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

    “to wad a cloak”

noun

  1. 1

    Plumbago, graphite.

  2. 2

    Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

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