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W0002600 (wŏd′ĭng)n.1. a. A wad.b. Wads considered as a group.2. A soft layer of cotton, wool, or other fibrous material used for padding or stuffing.3. Material for gun wads.

wadding

(ˈwɒdɪŋ) n1. (Textiles) a. any fibrous or soft substance used as padding, stuffing, etc, esp sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purposeb. a piece of this2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) material for wads used in cartridges or guns

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n. 1. any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., esp. carded cotton in specially prepared sheets. 2. material used as wads for guns, cartridges, etc. 3. a wad or lump. [1620–30]

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wadding - any material used especially to protect somethingpacking, packing materialmaterial, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"cardboard, composition board - a stiff moderately thick paperexcelsior, wood shavings - thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing

wadding

noun padding, filling, stuffing, lining, packing, filler a sleeping bag lined with wadding

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wadding

any fibrous or soft substance used as padding, stuffing, etc., esp sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose

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a fluffy mass of fibers, loosely interwoven in various directions. According to the means of producing wadding, it is classified as natural—woolen, silken, down, cotton, linen, hempen, pine-needle, and asbestos; or artificial—cellulose, glass, metallic, slag, and basalt.

Natural wadding is divided according to use into apparel, furniture, technical (thermal-insulation, fireproof, and so on), packing, sheet bonded, and medical.

In the manufacture of wadding the raw material is pulled apart, separated, and cleansed of foreign matter. The fibrous mass obtained is formed into so-called laps on machines of an opener-scutcher unit; the formless mass of fibers constituting the lap is transformed into a product of definite thickness. In the production of medical wadding the raw material is subjected to boiling in alkali under pressure and is then processed with sodium hyposulfite. As a result, the fiber acquires its whiteness and its characteristic properties: the ability to rapidly become wet and absorb moisture. Medical wadding is divided into hygroscopic and compress types. Hygroscopic wadding is white, separates readily into layers, and is used to absorb fluid secretions (pus or ichor) in bandaging wounds over layers of gauze dressing. Compress wadding is used for heat insulation of wrapped or bandaged parts of the body (for example, with hot compresses) and also as a soft padding when applying immobilized casts (for example, plaster casts).

Artificial wadding is widely used in construction as a thermal- and sound-insulating material and in the chemical industry for filtration of liquids and gases. A special form of wadding is the so-called vatilin—that is, wadding sized on one or both sides with adhesive emulsion. Vatilin is a substitute for wadding in sewing apparel, lining material, and so on.

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[′wäd·iŋ] (mineralogy) wad

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(wahd'ing), 1. Carded cotton or wool in sheets, used for surgical dressing. 2. Fibrous material used in packing a firearm shell, often found in gunshot wounds inflicted at close range.

A disc of material—formerly fibre and paper, now plastic and cardboard—used in guns—most commonly in shotguns—to seal gas behind a projectile or to separate powder from shot

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(wahd'ing) Carded cotton or wool in sheets, used for surgical dressing.

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noun padding

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noun any material used especially to protect something

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