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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'GAD' Resulted in 3 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 3 Definitions Gad proper noun  (biblical) Seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah. (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Gad. (given name, male, from Hebrew, ) Translations:  Spanish: Etymology: Old Testament (Hebr.) (gad) "luck", a son of Jacob.       gad noun  A sharp-pointed object; a goad. December 17, 1885 Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the must be used to drive it on again. " http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hfdtroit.html Detroit Free Press. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 327: :Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's and douse the electric lamp (obsolete) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. An old English indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds. 1957 Twice a day a <b>'gad'</b> of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours. &mdash; H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146. verb (gadd, ing) To move from one location to another in an apparently random manner; often as phrasal verb gad about. 1852' "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. " Alice Cary, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=148726342&tag=EAF489v2&query=gad&id=eaf489v2 Clovernook ....        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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