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Definition of Gadling
1. n. See Gad,
2. a. Gadding about.
3. n. A roving vagabond.
Definition of Gadling
1. Noun. roving vagabond; one who roams ¹
2. Noun. A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gadling
1. a vagabond [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gadling
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gadling
Literary usage of Gadling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... goth to shame And f er-fore haue fou goddes curs brother by thyn name 100 Than
spake his brother fat rape was of roes Stand stille gadling and hold fi ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"106. gadling'Jt (gad'ling), ». and a. [Appar. a particular use of ... Wyatt, The
Jealous Man. gadling^t. "• [<ffn</1 + -ím.(71.] Same as 0a«"1, 2. II. a. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"A gadling See A-gade. GADER. To gather. Palsgrave. ... A long pole with an iron
crook attached to it. Somerset. gadling. A vagabond. (//. ..."
4. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1901)
"I am no worse gadling than thee Pardee ne no worse wight, But born I was of a
lady And gotten of a knight. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"GAD-HOOK, s. A long pole with an iron crook. Somerset. GADING, ~[s. A going
about ; a GADDING, /pilgrimage. gadling, s. (Л.-З.') Л worthless vagabond. ..."
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