gad
IPA: gˈæd
noun
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
- (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
- (especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
- (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
- (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
- (obsolete) A metal bar.
- (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
- The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
- One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A surname.
- Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder. [An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry which may interfere with daily functioning.]
verb
- (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
- (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
Examples of "gad" in Sentences
- I gadded aroung the world.
- He was gadding around this city.
- I love to see him gadding around.
- Gadding aroung this city is so cool.
- He gadded around the park like a child.
- I like gadding and hate stuck in a room.
- He was also called the person with the gad.
- Gad is also common in the elderly population.
- Gad was a seer or prophet in the Hebrew Bible.
- It was in the tribal territorial allotment of the tribe of Gad.