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Gad   /gæd/   Listen
noun
Gad  n.  
1.
The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
2.
A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. "I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words."
3.
A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
4.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
5.
A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. (Obs.) "Flemish steel... some in bars and some in gads."
6.
A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. (Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.)
Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. (Obs.) "All this done upon the gad!"


verb
Gad  v. i.  (past & past part. gadded; pres. part. gadding)  To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. "The gadding vine." "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?"





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"Gad" Quotes from Famous Books



... no hope of acquittal. Staunton, who was acting for the Crown, was convinced that the prisoner would receive the maximum sentence allowed by law. And even O'Hara acknowledged privately to his solicitor that the best he could hope for was a life sentence. "And, by gad! he ought to get it! It is the most damnable case of bloody murder that I have come across in all my practice!" But this was before Mr. ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
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... to the wind than a man has any right to sail. If you treated a child so, or a servant, aye, or a dumb beast, some preventive society would be at you for cruelty and neglect. They'd call me for the prosecution, and by gad, sir, my evidence would send you to Portland or Dartmoor—fine healthy places, both of 'em, by the way! But people seem to think they're licensed to treat their own bodies with any amount of cruelty and neglect. A grave mistake; a grave mistake! In the ideal state, sir, Citizen Jones will no ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
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... we wished to walk from Clovenford to Innerleithen—why, with seven-league boots on, one single step would take us up to Posso, seven miles above Peebles! That would never do. By mincing one's steps, indeed, one might contrive to stop at Innerleithen; but suppose a gad-fly were to sting one's hip at the Pirn—one unintentional stride would deposit Christopher at Drummelzier, and another over the Cruik, and far away down Annan water! Therefore, there is nothing like wings. On wings you can flutter—and glide—and float and soar—now like a humming-bird ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
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... continued the merciless Harvey; "I'd lay for that Rollin. Gad, I'd set a match to his ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
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... much we can't remember it," he said, shamelessly. "Don't you worry one bit about that, Maria Smith. I've always heard that weddin' couples don't never really see nothin' on their weddin' towers, anyhow—they gad an' gad, an' it don't do no good. We was wiser not ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
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