Meaning of gadling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A companion in arms, fellow, comrade.
   obsolete
2. A roving vagabond; one who roams
3. A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

Examples

“Gedlyngis, I am a fulle grete wat,”

“I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling, as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village.”

““Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?””

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