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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? --Jer. ii 36. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gadding \Gad"ding\, a. & n. Going about much needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. --Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. --Tennyson. {Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
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