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http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Herman-melville-moby-dick-chap-29-enter-ahab-to-him-stubb-lyrics#note-2407378

You have to wad a muzzleloading cannon, meaning you have to insert some clothlike material on either side of the cannonball (a buffer between powder on one side and the length of the chamber on the other). Hence the expression to blow one’s wad.