GAD

Gadname/ɡæd/

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  biblicallifestylereligionThe seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

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  One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.

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  A male given name from Hebrew.

  • “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
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  A surname.

gadintj詞源 1/ɡæd/

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  An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.

  • The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.

gadverb詞源 2/ɡæd/

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  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.
  • So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
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  To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

gadnoun詞源 2/ɡæd/

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  One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

gadnoun詞源 3/ɡæd/

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  derogatoryA greedy and/or stupid person.

  • Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
  • Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.

gadnoun詞源 4/ɡæd/

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  dialectalA 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?
  • Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with a gad or a cow-hide.
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  dialectalA 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;
  • Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad.
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  businessminingA pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick.

  • I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
  • Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp
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  obsoleteA 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.
  • Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads.
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  datedengineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesAn indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.

  • Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
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  A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

  • Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.
  • His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there are gads or gadlings on the fingers.

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