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An amorphous, compact mass.

Example: Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

A substantial pile (normally of money).

Example: With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan

A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.

A sandwich.

To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

Example: She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.

To wager.

To insert or force a wad into.

Example: to wad a gun

To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

Example: to wad a cloak

Plumbago, graphite.

Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.