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  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Gad
  2. a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 soarranged as to drill a line of holes.
  5. v wander aimlessly in search of pleasure