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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Gad has 2 senses
- gad(n = noun.state) anxiety reaction, generalized anxiety disorder - an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months; Array is a kind of anxiety disorder
- gad(n = noun.artifact) spur - a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on" is a part of boot
is a kind of goad, prod
has parts: rowel
Verb Gad has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Gad, n. [OE. gad, Icel. gaddr goad, sting; akin to Sw. gadd sting, Goth. gazds, G. gerte switch. See Yard a measure.].
- The point of a spear, or an arrowhead. [1913 Webster]
- A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. [1913 Webster]"I will go get a leaf of brass,
And with a gad of steel will write these words." [1913 Webster] - A sharp-pointed rod; a goad. [1913 Webster]
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
- A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. [1913 Webster]"Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads." [1913 Webster]
- A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. Halliwell. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Gad, v. i. [Prob. fr. gad, n. , and orig. meaning to drive about.].
To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?"
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Gad, v. & n.
--v.intr. (gadded, gadding) (foll. by about, abroad, around) go about idly or in search of pleasure.
--n. idle wandering or adventure (esp. in on the gad).
--v.intr. (gadded, gadding) (foll. by about, abroad, around) go about idly or in search of pleasure.
--n. idle wandering or adventure (esp. in on the gad).
Gad, int. (also by gad) an expression of surprise or emphatic assertion.
Etymology
= God
THESAURUS
Gad
Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, bat, bat around, bird of passage, bum, count ties, divagate, drift, drifter, flit, floater, gad about, gadabout, gadfly, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, go-about, goad, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, itinerant, jaunt, knock about, knock around, lash, maunder, meander, mooch, mover, nomadize, oxgoad, peregrinate, peregrinator, peregrine, pererrate, peripatetic, prick, prod, prowl, ramble, rambler, range, roam, roamer, rolling stone, rove, rover, rowel, run about, run around, runabout, saunter, spur, sting, straggle, straggler, stray, stroll, stroller, strolling player, traipse, tramp, troubadour, vagabond, vagabondize, visitant, walk the tracks, wander, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfare, whip, whiplashROGET THESAURUS
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Journey
VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
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