boule vs wad

boule

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

noun
  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

wad

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

  • To insert or force a wad into. 

  • To wager. 

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

noun
  • A sandwich. 

  • An ejaculation of semen. 

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

  • Plumbago, graphite. 

  • 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. 

  • An amorphous, compact mass. 

  • A substantial pile (normally of money). 

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