wadding
wadding Lexical Profile
wadding Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Soft, thick, fibrous material such as cotton, wool, or synthetic batting used for padding, stuffing, quilting, or packing fragile items.
"The antique porcelain vase was carefully wrapped in layers of cotton wadding before being placed in the shipping crate."
A disk or plug of felt, paper, or cardboard inserted into a shotgun shell or muzzle-loading firearm to keep the powder and shot in place and seal gases.
"Archaeologists recovered brass buttons and fragments of paper wadding from the eighteenth-century battlefield."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the noun 'wad' plus the suffix '-ing' (denoting material), attested since the late 16th century. 'Wad' itself is of uncertain origin, likely related to Medieval Latin 'wadda' or Middle Low German 'wad', referring to a bundle of cloth or fibrous padding.
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