verb

• (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
  "This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable."
• (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

noun

• (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
  "Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ"

noun

• (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.
  "Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?"
• (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
  "And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;"
• (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
  "I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words."
• (obsolete) A metal bar.
  "they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved."

name

• (biblical) The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.