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    Wadding is a disc of material used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile (a bullet or ball), or to separate the propellant from loosely packed shots...
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  • Wadding is a surname, and may refer to Joey Wadding, Irish Gaelic footballer Luke Wadding (1588–1657), Irish Franciscan historian Luke Wadding (died 1687)...
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  • Look up wadding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wadding is a disc of material used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile or to separate powder from...
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    Luke Wadding O.F.M. (16 October 1588 – 18 November 1657), was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian. Wadding was born on 16 October 1588 in Waterford...
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  • Michael Wadding S.J. (1591–1644), also known as Miguel Godinez, was an Irish Jesuit priest and missionary to New Spain. A mystical theologian, he was...
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  • Joey Wadding is a Gaelic footballer from County Wexford, Ireland. He plays for the Wexford county team. Wadding and fellow Wexford footballer Ben Brosnan...
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  • Luke Wadding (1628 - 1687) was a Roman Catholic priest, Bishop, and author of Christian poetry during the Stuart Restoration. Luke Wadding was born at...
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    steel. It is available either directly as a liquid or as an impregnated wadding pad also known as Duraglit. Brasso originated in Britain in about 1905...
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  • Michael Wadding may refer to: Michael Wadding (television), British television writer, director and producer Michael Wadding (priest) (1591–1644), Irish...
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  • priming powder. Wadding is made from felt, paper, cloth or card and has several different uses. In shotguns, a card wad or other secure wadding is used between...
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  • Peter Wadding (c. 1581 – 13 September 1644) was an Irish Jesuit theologian. Born at Waterford in 1581 or 1583, he was son of Thomas Wadding and his wife...
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    tightly in a canvas bag and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot...
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    hair (horse, hog and cow), coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims, wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up. In contrast, today's...
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  • Michael Wadding is an Irish hurling referee from Waterford. Wadding was the referee for the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between...
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    off the shot. Such loading procedures often require adding paper/cloth wadding and ramming down repeatedly with a rod to optimize the gas seal, and are...
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    be treated as a shorter-staple fiber and spun, hand-plied, or used as wadding.[citation needed] Noil may also be used as a decorative additive in spinning...
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    "rattle" down the gun barrel and leave the barrel at an angle, unless wadding or a discarding sabot is used. This difference in shot and bore diameter...
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  • Michael Wadding is a British television writer, director and producer. He began his career at the BBC with the 1999 Doctor Who documentaries Carnival...
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    base containing the primer. The shot charge is typically contained by wadding inside the case. The caliber of the cartridge is known as its gauge. The...
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    Ireland. At the entrance to the ancient church stands a monument to Luke Wadding, a seventeenth-century Waterford-born priest. This friary was one of the...
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  • sometimes added to clothes. Padding may also be referred to as batting or wadding when used as a layer in lining quilts or as a packaging or stuffing material...
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    eius, of which the earliest extant manuscript is one of 1390 AD. Luke Wadding ascribes the text to Ugolino da Santa Maria, whose name occurs three times...
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    extensive list of Franciscan internet resources Luke Wadding Papers: correspondence relating to Fr Luke Wadding OFM and the Irish Friars Minor at St. Isidore's...
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    reloading. A hollow tube open at both ends, the hayago contained gunpowder, wadding, and a bullet. Upon tearing open the tube's paper seal at the bottom, a...
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  • The shot pellets from a shotshell are propelled indirectly through a wadding inside the shell and scatter upon leaving the barrel, which is usually...
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    piccolo chiostro), designed by Casoni in 1626, and the Wadding cloister, named after Luke Wadding, with 17th century murals. After two years, however, the...
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    variety of oils. The rubbing pad is made of absorbent cotton or wool cloth wadding inside of a piece of fabric (usually soft cotton cloth) and is commonly...
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  • infant bed; hence cot death (US: crib) camp bed   cotton wool soft cotton wadding, used for cleaning wounds or make-up (US: Absorbent cotton, cotton ball)...
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  • sequentially inserting propellant, wadding, a projectile (normally a lead ball), and more wadding into the gun barrel, with the wadding and projectile tamped down...
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  • Christmas night all Christians sing". Its words were first published by Luke Wadding, a late 17th-century poet and bishop of the Catholic Church in Ireland...
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