Wadding

noun
1.
any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
2.
material used as wads for guns, cartridges, etc.
3.
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.
4.
a wad or lump.
noun
1.
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
2.
a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
3.
a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
4.
Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money:
He’s got a healthy wad salted away.
5.
a plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
6.
British Dialect. a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.
verb (used with object), wadded, wadding.
7.
to form (material) into a wad.
8.
to roll tightly (often followed by up):
He wadded up his cap and stuck it into his pocket.
9.
to hold in place by a wad:
They rammed and wadded the shot into their muskets.
10.
to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
11.
to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad:
to wad a quilt; to wad a speech with useless information.
verb (used without object), wadded, wadding.
12.
to become formed into a wad:
The damp tissues had wadded in his pocket.
Idioms
13.
shoot one’s wad, Informal.

to spend all one’s money:
He shot his wad on a new car.
to expend all one’s energies or resources at one time:
She shot her wad writing her first novel and her second wasn’t as good.
Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm.

noun
1.

any fibrous or soft substance used as padding, stuffing, etc, esp sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose
a piece of this

2.
material for wads used in cartridges or guns
noun
1.
a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing
2.

a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon
a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge

3.
a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes
4.
(US & Canadian, slang) a large quantity, esp of money
5.
(Brit, dialect) a bundle of hay or straw
6.
(Brit, military, slang) a bun: char and a wad
verb wads, wadding, wadded
7.
to form (something) into a wad
8.
(transitive) to roll into a wad or bundle
9.
(transitive)

to hold (a charge) in place with a wad
to insert a wad into (a gun)

10.
(transitive) to pack or stuff with wadding; pad
noun
1.
a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas
wacky