gadder
nounEtymology From gad (“pointed metal tool”) + -er.
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Business, Mining Historical A drilling or perforating machine or apparatus for mining and mineral exploration.
gadder
noun/ˈɡædə(ɹ)/
Etymology From gad (“gallivant”) + -er.
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One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
- He was no gadder abroad, credible Authors avouching that he never went out of his Cell; though both Cambridge and Rome pretend to his habitation.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Durham”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 293: