A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A sailor; a swabby.
A naval officer's epaulet.
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
A mop, especially on a ship.
A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
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.
Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
Plumbago, graphite.
An amorphous, compact mass.
A substantial pile (normally of money).
To insert or force a wad into.
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
To wager.
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.