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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gadding

· Gad·ding · IPA /ɡˈædɪŋ/
01 a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
  1. 1.
    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.
Phrases & compounds
Gadding car — in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.