wad

An amorphous, compact mass.

“Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.”

A substantial pile (normally of money).

“With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan”

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.

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

“She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.”

To wager.

To insert or force a wad into.

“to wad a gun”

To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

“to wad a cloak”

Plumbago, graphite.

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