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Wads   /wɑdz/   Listen
Wads

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"


Wad

noun
1.
A small mass of soft material.
2.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
3.
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.  Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid.
verb
(past & past part. waded; pres. part. wadding)
1.
Compress into a wad.  Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack.
2.
Crowd or pack to capacity.  Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram.





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"Wads" Quotes from Famous Books



... 186—-only 1 day after this before the 4th. i went up to Pewts today. he has borowed Harris Cobbs cannon. it is an old lunker. Pewt says if you put in six fingers of powder and wads and then fill it to the muzle with grass and ram it tite it will shaik the ...
— Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute
... very good it is for the purpose, Nat. A little poured into the barrel of the gun after the powder is made safe with a couple of wads, is driven out in a fine cutting spray, which has secured me many a lovely specimen ...
— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn
... before, though she may take to it regularly now for a time. I simply told her that she oughtn't to chew the end. No real smoker does; and I could see that she didn't like the wads of tobacco coming off on her tongue. Besides, it was beastly waste of the cigarette. She chawed off quite as much as she smoked. You'd have thought she'd have been obliged to me for giving her the tip, but quite the contrary. She ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... no trap! I didn't bring you here to get rolled for your wads, or anythin' like that. I stopped here to get me telegraph messenger uniform. I can go anywhere in the city with that on, and not be molested. I don't know what this means, but there are Chinks all ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson
... it to be understood that each may employ such charge as he prefers, and that each shall load his own piece?" The seconds assented to this. Of course, in those days only muzzle loaders were used, although we had cut-felt wads and all the improvements in gunnery known at that time. My weapon was supplied me by Captain Stevenson—a good Manton, somewhat battered up from much use, but of excellent even pattern. Orme shot a Pope-made ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough


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