Noah Webster
Gad
GAD, noun
1. A wedge or ingot of steel.
2. A style or graver.
3. A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners.
GAD, verb intransitive
1. To walk about; to rove or ramble idly or without any fixed purpose.
Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
2. To ramble in growth; as the gadding vine.