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Webster 1913 Edition


Gadding

Gad′ding

,
Adj.
&
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gadding

GAD'DING

,
ppr.
Rambling; roving; walking about.