n. One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a roving, idle manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. “Gaddishness and folly.” Abp. Leighton. [1913 Webster]