dictionary help1. The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
2. A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. "I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words." (Shak)
3. A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
5. A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. "Flemish steel . . . Some in bars and some in gads." (Moxon)
6. A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. "All this done upon the gad!"
Origin: OE. Gad, Icel. Gaddr goad, sting; akin to Sw. Gadd sting, Goth. Gazds, G. Gerte switch. See Yard a measure.
(01 Mar 1998)
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