Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gad \Gad\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Gadding}.] [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. ``The gadding vine.''
   --Milton.

         Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
                                                  --Jer. ii. 36.

Gadding \Gad"ding\, a. & n.
   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.

Source : WordNet®

gadding
     See {gad}

gad
     v : wander aimlessly in search of pleasure [syn: {gallivant}, {jazz
         around}]
     [also: {gadding}, {gadded}]