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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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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