a little amount; a tuft or bundle; a heap or swathe.
Examples: wad of banknotes; of beans; of clovergrass; of cotton (a plug); of greenbacks (U. S. money); of groans; of hay; of hemp; of linen (to carry on the head); of lupins; of money; of peas; of reeds; of straw; of tobacco; of tow; of wheat.