wad (noun)

a small mass of soft material

"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (noun)

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad (verb)

a wad of something chewable as tobacco

pack, bundle, wad, compact (verb)

compress into a wad

"wad paper into the box"

jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad (verb)

crowd or pack to capacity

"the theater was jampacked"

wad (Noun)

An amorphous, compact mass.

wad (Noun)

A substantial pile (normally of money).

wad (Noun)

A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.

wad (Noun)

an ejaculate of semen.

wad (Noun)

Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits

wad (Verb)

To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

wad (Verb)

to wager

Wad

Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral-rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite and vernadite.