That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, bygad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
1987, Mark Christensen, “Bang Your Head”, inMortal Belladaywic, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday,→ISBN,page132:
The clasp slips free (gad, what lushkazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, togadding 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.
1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to thegadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one hasgadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
1684, Meriton,Praise Ale, l. 100, in1851, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire, page 71:
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 thegad must be used to drive it on again.
1888, “Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare”, inThe Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend, page171:
Our thrifty dame, Mally, she rises soon at morn, She goes and tells the master I'm pulling up the corn; He clicks up the oxengad and sair belabours me, For I'm Robin Spraggon's auld grey mare, ae how he's guided me!
1908, Folklore Society (Great Britain),Publications, page288:
On the morning of Palm-Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a largegad or whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash,[…]
they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon agadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
1677–1683,Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, inMechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works,[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:[…] Joseph Moxon, published1678–1683,→OCLC:
Flemish steel[…] some in bars and some ingads.
1836, Walter Scott,Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions, page372:
When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon thegad as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh[…]
(dated,metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by afurnace, sometimes equivalent to abloom weighing around 100 pounds.
1957, H.R. Schubert,History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page146:
Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
1840, Charles Henry Hartshorne,An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in that County: Delivered Before the Members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton, page35:
Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented withgads or gadlings.
1842, Ecclesiological Society,Illustrations of Monumental Brasses ..., page70:
His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there aregads or gadlings on the fingers.
1858, Edward Cave,The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first[-fifth], for the year 1731[-1735] ..., page215:
Another curious device was that of arming the knuckles of the gauntlets with spikes (gads or gadlings), by which they became weapons as well as defences.
1992, Sir Guy Francis Laking,A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, page214:
On both finger joints aregads, which are beautifully faceted and brought to a point.
E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “gad”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015),L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[5], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
^de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977),Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath[Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 343
Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “gad”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, inPrace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page196
^Oftedal, M. (1956),A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page213
^Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940),A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page102
^Wentworth, Roy (2003),Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR,→ISBN, page 5
^Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937),The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page178
^John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 171
^Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, inThe UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive[2], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
Gad orsmol koknat is the third stage of coconut growth. It is preceded bygiru(eastern dialect) ormusu koknat(western dialect), and followed bykopespes.
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