"overstuffing" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} overstuffing (uncountable)
  1. Material used in upholstering just under the top fabric. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-overstuffing-en-noun-OUpFrgel Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 20

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} overstuffing
  1. present participle and gerund of overstuff Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: overstuff
    Sense id: en-overstuffing-en-verb-2vZDQFRg
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1892, The Furniture Gazette, page 224:",
          "text": "I have taken many an old sofa to pieces to find the understuffing was marsh hay, with a heavy over-stuffing of cotton, with no edge, but simply plain tufting.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, John Wesley Stephenson, Furniture Upholstering: A Practical Handbook for the Upholsterer:",
          "text": "To remedy this, additional stuffing is pushed up under the overstuffing so as to crowd it out and fill up all hollows.",
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          "ref": "1920, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan, volume 19, page 49:",
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          "type": "quote"
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