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Meanings of wadding in inglês

português
algodão carvado e comprido em camadas moles
catalão
buata

Any material used especially to protect something.

algodão carvado e comprido em camadas moles
Synonyms
Examples for "packing"
Examples for "packing"
1
Now they set down their prize, a large, scorched, dented packing case.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
2
I became obsessed with the idea of packing as light as possible.
Reuters
3
He smiled, then: Say, what kind of heat you packing these days?
Red Planet Blues
4
Lex left reluctantly to go home and start packing for her move.
Sushi for one?
5
What she needed to do was to start packing and stop thinking.
East of the sun
1
The mineral asbestos is but a very poor packing material in steam-boilers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
2
I pulled the packing material aside and saw pink flowers on a platter.
Notes from the dog
3
I dumped the rest of the packing material into the trash.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
4
I try whenever possible to reuse boxes and packing material.
Feminist dot com
5
I didn't see much but packing material, Annja admitted.
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Usage of wadding in inglês
1
You can also use metal foil, paper wadding, sand, clay...sometimes, baby powder.'
Quantico
2
The size of a small marble, it lay swathed in white wadding.
Tropic Days
3
Then he balled the fuel-soaked paper, wadding it tight in his hands.
Devil's keep
4
Rosa spat wadding that had been placed between the teeth and shouted-
Renaissance
5
Dockett shook his shaggy head, wadding up his hat in his hands.
The devil wears plaid
6
He grabbed the handkerchief and began wadding it back in my mouth.
The big bite
7
The first has her leaves; the second her wadding; the third her resin.
Bramble-Bees and Others
8
The trees are already wrapped in snow, like precious objects packed in wadding.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
9
The brown silk was so worn that the wadding stuck out almost everywhere.
The Song of the Lark
10
Tell 'em to ram hard the wadding and grease the mouth.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
11
It was the paper that had served as wadding for the murderer's gun.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
12
She examined a rent through which wadding peeped out on the world, cautiously.
The Argonauts
13
A scrap of cotton wadding is also good for stopping blood.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
14
Everyone spread out and got busy pawing, dragging, stuffing, and wadding.
Anathem
15
Cotton wadding puffed out, and it served to clean the blade.
Mine
16
There's a disgusting stench of cheap tobacco and smoldering filter wadding.
The Fuller Memorandum
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catalão
buatafolre
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