Wadding

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What Wikipedia says

Wadding is a disc of material used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile (a bullet or ball), or to separate the propellant from loosely packed shots.

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Image: Paweł Drozd, Original uploader was Drozdp at pl.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.