Meaning of Gad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
2. A greedy and/or stupid person.
   Northern-England, Scotland, derogatory
3. 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.
   UK, US, dialectal, especially
4. The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
5. Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
6. A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
   UK, US, dialectal
7. One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
8. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
   especially
9. A male given name from Hebrew.
10. A metal bar.
    obsolete
11. A surname.
12. An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
    dated
13. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Equivalents

Examples

“Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ”

“Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.”

“Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?”

“Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with a gad or a cow-hide.”

“Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.”

“Our thrifty dame, Mally, she rises soon at morn, She goes and tells the master I'm pulling up the corn; He clicks up the oxen gad and sair belabours me, For I'm Robin Spraggon's auld grey mare, ae how he's guided me!”

“On the morning of Palm-Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a large gad or whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash, […]”

“And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;”

“Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad.”

“Woe to the lad / without a rowen-tree gad.”

“We'll splice oor gads nigh Barra Mill, Beneath yon auld birk tree.”

“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”

“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.”

“When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon the gad as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh […]”

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

“Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.”

“His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there are gads or gadlings on the fingers.”

“Another curious device was that of arming the knuckles of the gauntlets with spikes (gads or gadlings), by which they became weapons as well as defences.”

“On both finger joints are gads, which are beautifully faceted and brought to a point.”

““We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.”

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