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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



... Nothing was said because the King had led the dance, but disgrace was in the atmosphere. We had all fallen from heaven—one may mean many things by heaven—and landed with more or less severity, according to the resources of padding with which Nature furnished us. To Varvilliers' case, indeed, the metaphor is inadequate; he had a parachute, sailed to earth gaily with never a bruise, and was ready to mount again had any of us ...
— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope
... which has a freer movement, and is on the whole less marred by the over-emphatic repetition of words and phrases in consecutive lines, a particularly irritating trick of the author's pastoral style, or by the monotonous cadence and painful padding of the blank verse. Daniel was emphatically one of those poets, neither few nor inconsiderable, the natural nervelessness of whose poetic diction imperatively demands the bracing restraint of rime. It is noteworthy that this applies to his ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg
... were done, I could see they were rubbish. In consequence, I very rarely showed them even to my friends; and such friends as I chose to be my confidants I must have chosen well, for they had the friendliness to be quite plain with me. "Padding," said one. Another wrote: "I cannot understand why you do lyrics so badly." No more could I! Thrice I put myself in the way of a more authoritative rebuff, by sending a paper to a magazine. These were returned; and I was not surprised nor ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... unlike the quilting of fifty years ago cannot be imagined. The finest materials were used, the padding being placed bit by bit in its place—not in the wholesale fashion of later years, when a sheet or two of wadding was placed between the sheets of cotton or linen, and a coarse back-stitching outlined in great scrawling patterns held the whole ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes
... there; yea, Unwonted spectacles of sweat and scare Behind the French, that make a stand With eighty cannon, match in hand.— Upon the highway from the town to rear An eddy of distraction reigns, Where lumbering treasure, baggage-trains, Padding ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy


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