Gadding

Gadding Gad"ding, a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. [1913 Webster]

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

{Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. [1913 Webster]


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  • Gadding — Gad Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. . {Gaddig}.] [Prob. fr. gad, ., ad orig. meaig to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hece, to ru wild; to be ucotrolled. ``The gaddig vie. "… (The Collaborative International Dictionary of English)
  • Gadding car — Gaddig Gad"dig, a. & . Goig about much, eedlessly or without purpose. [1913 Webster] Evy is a gaddig passio, ad walketh the streets. --Baco. [1913 Webster] The good us would check her gaddig togue. --Teyso. [1913 Webster]… (The Collaborative International Dictionary of English)
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  • Gad — Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. . {Gaddig}.] [Prob. fr. gad, ., ad orig. meaig to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hece, to ru wild; to be ucotrolled. ``The gaddig vie. "… (The Collaborative International Dictionary of English)
  • Gadded — Gad Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. . {Gaddig}.] [Prob. fr. gad, ., ad orig. meaig to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hece, to ru wild; to be ucotrolled. ``The gaddig vie. "… (The Collaborative International Dictionary of English)
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