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gad

gad (third-person singular simple present gads, present participle gadding, simple past and past participle gadded)

1. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
   • 1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....

     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.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:

     If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.

gad (plural gads)

1. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
   • 1885, Detroit Free Press., December 17

     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.

2. (obsolete) A metal bar.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:

     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.

3. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327:

     Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miners gad and douse the electric lamp

4. (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.

     Twice a day a gad of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.

gad

1. you (informal singular, direct object)

   Bruidhinn nas labhaire, chan eil mi gad chluinntinn ceart. - Speak louder, I dont hear you well.

gad

1. Alternative form of ged.

Definizione dizionario gad

bighellonare

vagabondare

vagare

Altri significati:

An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.

(dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.

(obsolete) A metal bar.

A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.

To move from one location to another in an apparently random manner.

A sharp-pointed object; a goad.