gad
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verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.Examples: "This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable."; "So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?""; "But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace."Synonyms: gallivantintransitive
2. (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
noun (English)
1. (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.Examples: "Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ"; "Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me."Northern-EnglandScotlandderogatory
noun (English)
1. (especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.Examples: "Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?"; "Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with a gad or a cow-hide."; "Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again."UKUSdialectalespecially
2. (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.Examples: "And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;"; "Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad."; "Woe to the lad / without a rowen-tree gad."UKUSdialectal
3. (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.Examples: "I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words."; "Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp"especially
4. (obsolete) A metal bar.Examples: "they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved."; "Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads."; "When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon the gad as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh […]"obsolete
5. (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.Examples: "Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours."dated
name (English)
1. (biblical) The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
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