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English to English noun 1. a small mass of soft material  he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter source: wordnet30
2. (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|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 source: wordnet30
3. a wad of something chewable as tobacco  source: wordnet30
4. Woad.  source: webster1913
5. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.  source: webster1913
6. An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.  source: webster1913
verb 7. compress into a wad  wad paper into the box source: wordnet30
8. crowd or pack to capacity  the theater was jampacked source: wordnet30
9. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.  source: webster1913
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