Meaning & use
wadding
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Soft material, such as cotton or paper fibers, used for padding, stuffing, or packing, or to hold a charge in place in a firearm.
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The tailor used wadding to add shape to the jacket's shoulders.
The old cannon relied on wadding to keep the powder charge packed tightly.
A note on using this word
Common in sewing and quilting to refer to the soft filler layer between fabric, also called 'batting' in American English.
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