Gadding

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gadding \Gad"ding\, a. & n.
     Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
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           Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.
                                                    --Bacon.


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           The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     {Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling
        machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gad \Gad\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Gadding}.] [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive
     about.]
     To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence,
     to run wild; to be uncontrolled. "The gadding vine."
     --Milton.
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           Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
                                                    --Jer. ii. 36.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gadding
       See {gad}