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wadding

/wod-ing/US // ˈwɒd ɪŋ //UK // (ˈwɒdɪŋ) //

絮状物,填充物,絮絮叨叨,棉絮

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
    • : material used as wads for guns, cartridges, etc.
    • : Surgery. any large dressing made of cotton or a similar absorbent material that is used to stanch the flow of blood or dress a wound.
    • : a wad or lump.

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Examples

  • He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

  • Fortunately, I had in my pocket a bit of waste paper, which I had used instead of wadding in loading my gun.

  • One of the cannoneers, who was strongly opposed to him, expressed the wish that he might be struck by some of the wadding.

  • And though shot and bullets were forbidden fruit, yet something might be done with hard wadding.

  • Even wadding, however, was declared to be inadmissible as too dangerous, after wounds had been inflicted more than once.