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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GADDING

ppr. Rambling; roving; walking about.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GADDING

GADDING Gad "ding, a. & n.

 

Defn: Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

 

GADDINGLY

GADDINGLY Gad "ding *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a roving, idle manner.