n. A point or pointed instrument, as a pointed bar of steel, a spear, or an arrowhead.n. A sharp point affixed to a part of the armor, as the gauntlet, which could thus be used to deal a formidable blow.n. A thick pointed nail; a gad-nail; specifically, in mining, a pointed tool used for loosening and breaking up rock or coal which has been shaken or thrown down by a blast, or which is loose and jointy enough to be got without the use of powder.n. A wedge or ingot of steel or iron.n. A stick, or rod of wood, sharpened to a point, or provided with a metal point, used to drive cattle with; a goad; hence, a slender stick or rod of any kind, especially one used for whipping.n. A gadfly.n. In old Scotch prisons, a round bar of iron crossing the condemned cell horizontally at the height of about six inches from the floor, and strongly built into the wall at both ends.To fasten with a gad-nail.In mining, to break up or loosen with the gad; use the gad upon.To flit about restlessly; move about uneasily or with excitement.To ramble about idly, from trivial curiosity or for gossip.Hence To ramble or rove; wander, as in thought or speech; straggle, as in growth.n. The act of gadding or rambling about: used in the phrase on or upon the gad.n. The name of God, minced as an oath. Compare egad.n. A measuring-rod for land; a measure of length varying, in different districts, from nine or ten to as many as twenty feet.n. A division of an uninclosed pasture, said to have been usually 6½ feet wide in Lincolnshire.n. A cord or rope made from the fibers of the osier.