[f. WAD v.1 + -ER1.]
† 1. An implement for wadding a gun. Obs.
1579. Digges, Stratiot., 115. I mighte here adioyne sundrye Tables … what Bullets, Wadders, Rammers, Ladles,… were conueniente to bee hadde in readinesse.
2. One who lays up (the cut haulm of beans, etc.) in bundles or ‘wads.’
1763. Museum Rust. (ed. 2), I. 236. This … lays the beans in regular rows, and saves the expense of a wadder.
