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wadded

vb. (en-pastwad)

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wad
  1. n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, whole lot, whole slew]

  2. a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug]

  3. [also: wadding, wadded]

wad
  1. v. compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, compact]

  2. crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram]

  3. [also: wadding, wadded]

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Usage examples of "wadded".

Tala had wadded around the arbalest and ran his fingers almost lovingly over the wooden stock and steel bow stave, and Grumuk cackled again.

Instead, he had packed in two wooden trunks, and a few leather wallets, then caulked the interstices with wadded or rolled papers.

Confederate Coehorn mortars, a fireball made of wadded raw cotton and turpentine.

He was remarkable for always wearing goloshes and a warm wadded coat, and carrying an umbrella even in the very finest weather.

I left her after I had repeated the dose three or four times, and gave her fifty sequins, telling her to get a good wadded coverlet and a large brazier, as I wanted to sleep with her the next night.

Doc corked a wadded handkerchief into the gaping maw, and Leaking could only squeal through his nose.

Then he wadded the sarape up and threw it into the backseat, glaring at her through the windshield before turning his attention to the car.

Lawrence brought me a dressing-gown lined with foxskin, a coverlet of wadded silk, and a bear-skin bag for me to put my legs in, which I welcomed gladly, for the coldness was unbearable as the heat in August.

But he never mentioned that he had walked behind her through the department, past twelve occupied desks at the top of a shift, down the corridor packed with uniforms, and past the garage security guard, as she carried a long, thick roll of cork under one arm and a desk blotter under the other, with a calendar wadded in her purse and God knows what else.

He just loved picturing her right here, with all her ambition, her energy, bent over, bottom in the air, picking up polystyrene cups and wadded napkins and used condoms and takeaway Chinese cartons .

Sometimes he wadded shammies in his fist and thrust them so deeply into her mouth that they rested against the back of her throat.

He 304 NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET wadded a bill into a ball and tossed it in the pilot house window, smiled wanly and returned to his car.

Lalji smiled slightly as he counted through his wadded bluebills and handed over the money.

Then three spare cords should be carried for each bow, with a great store of arrow-heads, besides the brigandines of chain mail, the wadded steel caps, and the brassarts or arm-guards, which were the proper equipment of the archer.

Instead of a fair white bed with Austin lying in it, she was confronted by the sight of a gaping hole in the roof, something that looked like a rubbish heap in a brickfield immediately underneath, and the long slender form of Austin himself wrapped in a comfortable wadded dressing-gown fast asleep upon the sofa.