That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion. [1913 Webster]
Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. [1913 Webster]
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.

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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.

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THESAURUS

Stuffing

Apician, abdomen, all-devouring, anhydration, anus, appendix, blast-freezing, blind gut, bolting, bonus, bottling, bowels, brain, brining, bush, bushing, canning, cecum, colon, corning, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, curing, decoration, dehydration, desiccation, doubling, doublure, dressing, dry-curing, drying, duodenum, edacious, embalming, endocardium, entrails, evaporation, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, facing, farce, filigree, filler, filling, fillip, flourish, forcemeat, foregut, freeze-drying, freezing, frill, fuming, gasket, giblets, gizzard, gland, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, greedy, gulping, guts, guttling, guzzling, heart, hindgut, hoggish, hyperphagic, inlay, inlayer, innards, inner mechanism, insatiable, insides, insole, intemperate, interlineation, internals, intestine, inwards, irradiation, jejunum, jerking, kidney, kishkes, lagniappe, large intestine, liner, lining, liver, liver and lights, lung, marination, midgut, mummification, omnivorous, ornament, packing, padding, perineum, pickling, piggish, polyphagic, potting, premium, pump, pylorus, quick-freezing, rapacious, ravenous, rectum, refrigeration, salting, seasoning, small intestine, smoking, something extra, spleen, stomach, stopping, superaddition, swinish, tampon, tar, taxidermy, ticker, tinning, trimming, tripes, twist, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, voracious, wadding, wainscot, wolfing, works, wrinkle

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ROGET THESAURUS

Stuffing

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.

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