intransitive verb. To move about restlessly or with little purpose, especially in search of pleasure or amusement. synonym: wander.

noun. A pointed tool, such as a spike or chisel, used for breaking rock or ore.

noun. A goad, as for prodding cattle.

transitive verb. To break up (ore, for example) with a gad.

To fasten with a gad-nail.

In mining, to break up or loosen with the gad; use the gad upon.

To flit about restlessly; move about uneasily or with excitement.

To ramble about idly, from trivial curiosity or for gossip.

Hence To ramble or rove; wander, as in thought or speech; straggle, as in growth.

noun. The name of God, minced as an oath. Compare egad.

noun. The act of gadding or rambling about: used in the phrase on or upon the gad.

noun. A measuring-rod for land; a measure of length varying, in different districts, from nine or ten to as many as twenty feet.

noun. A division of an uninclosed pasture, said to have been usually 6½ feet wide in Lincolnshire.

noun. A cord or rope made from the fibers of the osier.

noun. A point or pointed instrument, as a pointed bar of steel, a spear, or an arrowhead.

noun. A sharp point affixed to a part of the armor, as the gauntlet, which could thus be used to deal a formidable blow.

noun. A thick pointed nail; a gad-nail; specifically, in mining, a pointed tool used for loosening and breaking up rock or coal which has been shaken or thrown down by a blast, or which is loose and jointy enough to be got without the use of powder.

noun. A wedge or ingot of steel or iron.

noun. A stick, or rod of wood, sharpened to a point, or provided with a metal point, used to drive cattle with; a goad; hence, a slender stick or rod of any kind, especially one used for whipping.

noun. A gadfly.

noun. In old Scotch prisons, a round bar of iron crossing the condemned cell horizontally at the height of about six inches from the floor, and strongly built into the wall at both ends.

intransitive verb. To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.

noun. The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

noun. A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.

noun. A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

noun. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

noun. A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.

noun. A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.

noun. upon the spur of the moment; hastily.

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

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

noun. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.

noun. A metal bar.

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

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

verb. wander aimlessly in search of pleasure

noun. an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months

noun. a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

"_gad_ [Footnote: A gad is a tool used in mines; it resembles a smith's punch.] were put into my hands; and I thought myself a great man."

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