WADDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wadding mean? 

• WADDING (noun)
  The noun WADDING has 1 sense:

1. any material used especially to protect something

  Familiarity information: WADDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WADDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any material used especially to protect something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

packing; packing material; wadding

Hypernyms ("wadding" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wadding"):

cardboard; composition board (a stiff moderately thick paper)

excelsior; wood shavings (thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing)

 Context examples 

I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)