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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Noun.

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.

ppr.

Rambling; roving; walking about.

gadding

gadding ‎(plural gaddings)

The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously.
- 1879, William Adolph Baillie Grohman, Gaddings with a Primitive People