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Found 1 definition: stuffing.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun stuffing has 2 senses

1. stuffing(n = noun.food) dressing - a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables;
is a kind of concoction, intermixture, mixture
has particulars: turkey stuffing, oyster dressing, oyster stuffing, farce, forcemeat
Derived form verb stuff₇

2. stuffing(n = noun.artifact) - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture;
is a kind of cushioning, padding
has particulars: batten, batting

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

stuffing, n.

1. That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion. [1913 Webster]

2. Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. [1913 Webster]

3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. [1913 Webster]

Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

stuffing, n.
1 padding used to stuff cushions etc.
2 a mixture used to stuff poultry etc., esp. before cooking.

Idiom:
knock (or take) the stuffing out of colloq. make feeble or weak; defeat. stuffing-box a box packed with material, to allow the working of an axle while remaining airtight.

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Contents

N contents, cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag, cartload, shipload, cup of, basket of, of, inside, stuffing, ullage.

Lining

N lining, inner coating, coating, stalactite, stalagmite, filling, stuffing, wadding, padding, wainscot, parietes, wall, lined.

Stopper

N stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap, rammer, ram, ramrod, piston, stop-gap, wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet, cover, valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve, janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.