English Dictionary

gad

/ɡæd/

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.

I bought a new gad for my kitchen.

意味（1）

(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?

意味（2）

(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.

And we'll prepare our limber gads,

And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(dated, metallurgy) An 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.

意味（6）

A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.