wads
noun
Meaning
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- A sandwich.
- An ejaculation of semen.
- Plumbago, graphite.
- Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
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