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wad
wad is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Woad. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
Woad.
- 2noun
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
- 3noun
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
- 4noun
A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- 5transitive verb
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
- 6transitive verb
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
- 7noun
Alt. of Wadd
- 8noun
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- 9noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- 10noun
a small mass of soft material
"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
- 11verb
compress into a wad
"wad paper into the box"
- 12verb
crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"
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