
n.
- A wad.
- Wads considered as a group.
- A soft layer of fibrous cotton or wool used for padding or stuffing.
- Material for gun wads.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
any material used especially to protect something
Synonyms: packing material, packing
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Wadding is a disc of material used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile or to separate powder from shot.[1]
Wadding can be crucial to a gun's efficiency, since any gas that leaks past a projectile as it is being fired is wasted. A harder or more carefully designed item which serves this purpose is often called a sabot. Wadding for muzzleloaders is typically a small piece of cloth, or paper wrapping from the cartridge.
Wadding is also used in model rockets to prevent the parachute from melting when it ejects. Without the recovery wadding the parachute would melt because the ejection is by a small solid-fuel engine. It gets so hot it melts hot glue almost immediately.
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| Translations: Wadding |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - vattering, cellstof
Nederlands (Dutch)
verpakkings- materiaal, materiaal voor watten (kanonprop)
Français (French)
n. - ouatage, rembourrage, capitonnage, ouate (pour vêtements), bourre (pour armes à feu)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Futter, Füllmaterial
Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - παραγέμισμα
n. - (ενδυμ.) βάτα, (υλικό για) παραγέμισμα
Português (Portuguese)
n. - enchimento (m)
Русский (Russian)
набивка, вата или шерсть для набивки, ватин
Español (Spanish)
n. - guata, relleno
Svenska (Swedish)
v. - vadderar
n. - bomullsvadd, stoppning
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
填塞物, 软纸, 填棉
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 填塞物, 軟紙, 填棉
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 채우는 물건, 옷 솜, (총포의) 충전물 재료
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) حشوة, لبدة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מילוי, ריפוד
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