dial. [Cf. WAD sb.1 2 b.] ‘A large loose bundle’ (Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. Wedge).
1860. All Year Round, 28 July, 368/2. The unhappy children [Blue-coat boys] … are compelled … to turn their skirts up and gird them in a great hot wadge about their loins.
1862. C. A. Collins, A Cruise upon Wheels, II. xi. 207. That monstrous wadge of a dressing-gown.
