[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gadding \gad"ding\, a.  n.
   going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
   1913 webster

         envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.
                                                  --bacon.
   1913 webster

         the good nuns would check her gadding tongue.
                                                  --tennyson.
   1913 webster

   gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling
      machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
      1913 webster
see also:
gadding car 

[2] : 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.
   1913 webster

         why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
                                                  --jer. ii. 36.
   1913 webster
see also:
gadded gadding 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gadding
     see gad
see also:
gad 

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