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Padding   /pˈædɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Padding  n.  
1.
The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
2.
The material with which anything is padded.
3.
Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.
4.
(Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.


verb
Pad  v. t.  To travel upon foot; to tread. (Obs.) "Padding the streets for half a crown."


Pad  v. t.  (past & past part. padded; pres. part. padding)  
1.
To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
2.
(Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.


Pad  v. i.  
1.
To travel heavily or slowly.
2.
To rob on foot. (Obs.)
3.
To wear a path by walking. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Padding" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the impounded correspondence that Bobby had talked of. I found nothing except, as the police reports say, the trace of a struggle. He had kicked half the varnish off the back of the front seat, and had bitten the leather padding where he could reach it. Evidently a purposeful ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... folding his paper and putting it away in his breast. There was reason to believe that he spent valuable hours copying all these verses for Annabel de Chaumont. But there is no evidence that she carried them with her when she and her governess departed in a great coach all gilt and padding. Servants and a wagon load of baggage and supplies accompanied De Chaumont's daughter on the long journey ...
— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... took to her heels and fled, regardless of the open door, or the padding of her bare feet ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... the Art of Dyeing Silk, Cotton, Wool, and Worsted, and Woolen Goods; containing nearly 800 Receipts. To which is added a Treatise on the Art of Padding; and the Printing of Silk Warps, Skeins, and Handkerchiefs, and the various Mordants and Colors for the different styles of such work. By DAVID SMITH, Pattern ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
... certain small cove on the estate for the purpose of procuring a supply of fish, as usual. After having been thus engaged for some hours, with very scant success, Tomasso had decided to try his luck farther out; and while padding to seaward his attention had been attracted by the appearance of something floating about a mile away. Paddling in that direction, in the hope that what he saw might be worth picking up, he had at length come alongside the hatchway, with me upon it, in a state of collapse. The negroes on the ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood


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