waddingn.
/ˈwɒdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɑdɪŋ/ 1. The action of wad v.1
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > sheaf or bundle of other crops > sheafing or bundling other crops
wadding1776
1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 14 Sept. (1778) Whether the crop be thick or thin, Wadding puts it equally out of harm's way.
2. concrete. Any soft, pliable material from which gun-wads are made; also, a wad.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes
screen cloth1603
wadding1627
heading1650
fusive1678
graving stuff1702
pounce1728
railing1740
retarder1753
seating1790
shelving1817
bending1823
shafting1825
wedging1825
rubber sheet1842
facing1843
piston packing1857
sheathing1859
screeding1864
paint1875
sleeving1923
landfill1969
presoak1969
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > wad
tampion1481
wadding1627
wad1667
wisp1688
patch1799
junk wad1822
grummet1828
patching1835
oil patch1861
grummet-wad1867
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 66 Waddings is Okum, old clouts, or straw, put after the powder and the Bullet.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 8 Nov. (1971) V. 316 To the Office of the Ordnance to discourse about Wadding for guns.
1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 175 The Waddings used in all these..Experiments, were of thick Leather cut round, to fit the Bore of the Piece.
1815 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. iii. 73 The whole of the extent..was strewed with the cartridges and waddings of the cannon.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 31 The recruit is to be instructed..to ram the paper, as wadding home.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liv. 525 I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot.
3. Any loose, fibrous material for use as a padding, stuffing, quilting, etc. Now chiefly, cotton-wool formed into a fleecy layer.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling
flocks1277
capiton1612
padding1640
wattins1690
wadding1734
packing1779
pugging1801
stopping1823
chinking1837
stopper1879
air foam1937
the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding
bolstering1530
stuffing1530
bombasting1603
padding1640
wadding1734
pad1860
1734 Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 4/1 Handsome Gowns for Ladies, with Silk Waddings.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Wadding, a thin, coarse, woollen Manufacture made to line Men's Morning Gowns, the Plaits of their Coats, &c.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Wadding, a kind of soft stuff loosely woven, with which the skirts of coats are stuffed out.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 31 A generation more refin'd Improv'd the simple plan;..And o'er the seat, with plenteous wadding stuff'd, Induc'd a splendid cover.
1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 13 Dec. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 113 I presented him a specimen of wadding for Ladies' cloaks.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1279 Wadding [for garments] is now made with a lap or fleece of cotton prepared by the carding-engine, which is applied to tissue paper by a coat of size.
1865 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 493 A small ball of cotton wool or wadding enclosed in a piece of linen rag.
1902 W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres Commerce 54 The raw material..when beaten out soft is used for wadding in clothing and coverlets.
1904 Woollen Draper's Terms in Tailor & Cutter 4 Aug. 480/2 Wadding; A loose fibrous material made of cotton waste; one side is finished with paper face; used for padding purposes.
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