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Wad vs Wald - What's the difference?

wad | wald |

As verbs the difference between wad and wald

is that wad is third person singular of while wald is to govern; inherit.

As a noun wald is

power; strength or wald can be forest; woods.

wad

English

(wikipedia wad)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amorphous, compact mass.
    • Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
  • A substantial pile (normally of money).
    • With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
  • A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • (slang) A sandwich.
  • (vulgar, slang) An ejaculate of semen.
  • (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

    • Derived terms

    * (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wad

    See also

    * (Wad)

    Verb

    (wadd)
  • To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
    • She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
  • (Ulster) To wager.
  • To insert or force a wad into.
    • to wad a gun
  • To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
    • to wad a cloak

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    wald

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) walden, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To govern; inherit.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wald, iwald, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Power; strength.
  • Command; control; possession.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Forest; woods.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1812 , year_published= , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Walter Scott , title=Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=124 , passage=… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald -elven,… }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1853 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Robert Simpson , title=History of Sanquhar , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=16 , passage=the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1857 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=George Bradshaw , title=Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=1 , passage=MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here. }}

    References

    * (Webster 1913) ----