gad

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

• The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.

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

• So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"

To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

A greedy and/or stupid person.Northern-EnglandScotlandderogatory

• Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ

A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.UKUSdialectal

• Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?

A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.UKUSdialectal

• And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;
• Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad.

A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick.especially

• I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
• Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp

A metal bar.obsolete

• they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
• Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.

An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.dated

• Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.

A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

• Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.
• His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there are gads or gadlings on the fingers.