Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gadded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gadding.]  To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. “The gadding vine.”
    Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?   --Jer. ii. 36.
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 Gad·ding, a. & n. 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.
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