gads
gads is the plural of gad.
gads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gad.
Meaning of gad
Noun (1)
gad (plural gads)
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
Noun (2)
gad (plural gads)
- A greedy and/or stupid person.
- Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
Noun (3)
gad (plural gads)
- 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?1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, l. 100, in 1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of...
- 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;1836, A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, page 4
- And we'll prepare our limber gads,
- A 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.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- 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.1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XV
Questions about gads
- What is gads the plural of?
- Gads is the plural of gad.
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