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▪ I. gadling1|ˈgædlɪŋ|
[f. gad n.1 + -ling.]
One of the small spikes of metal affixed to the knuckles of a gauntlet.
[a1360Chronicon Galfridi le Baker (1889) 113 Thomas quibusdam stimulis curtis et acutis quos manum dextram comprimendo digitorum nodi radicales e cirotecis laminatis expresserunt, et eos moderni vocant gadelinges, nudam Johannis faciem wlneravit.] 1592Stow Ann. 386 Certayne prickes both short and sharpe, then [1351: see above] called Gadlings, beeing closed in the ioyntes of his right gauntlet. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume x. 138 The backs of the leathern gauntlets were also furnished with overlapping plates, and the knuckles armed with knobs or spikes of iron, called gads or gadlings. 1877Athenæum 3 Nov. 571/3 Earl Ralph wears..gadlings on his gauntlets.
▪ II. † gadling2 Obs.
Forms: 1 gædeling, 3–5 gad-, gedeling, -(e)lyng (in late MSS. corruptly, godlinge, geldinge), 4–7 gadling.
[OE. gædeling = OS. gaduling, OHG. gateling (MHG. getelinc), Goth. gadiligg-s:—OTeut. *gaduliŋgo-z f. root *gad- (in OE. gæd fellowship, ᵹegada companion, gather v.) + -ling.]
1. Originally, a companion or fellow, in good sense; esp. a companion in arms.
Beowulf 2617 His gædelinges guðᵹewædu. c1000Daniel 422 Hwa þa ᵹyfe sealde ᵹingum gædelingum. c1205Lay. 12335 Alle þa gadelinges Alse heo weoren sunen kinges. a1250Prov. ælfred 312 in O.E. Misc. 120 So is mony gedelyng godlyche on horse. 13..K. Alis. 1192 Fiftene thousand of fot laddes..And alle stalworthe gadelynges.
2. In bad sense, as a term of reproach: A base, low-born person, a ‘fellow’.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 310 Þe beste body & noblest..yslawe was þoru a gadelyng, so vyllyche, alas! c1400Gamelyn 107, I am no worse gadelyng..But born of a lady, and geten of a knight. c1475Rauf Coiȝear 612 Quhair gangis thow, Gedling, thir gaitis sa gane? a1500Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) x. 237 That false gedlinge [v.r. gelding]. 15..Robd. Cysille in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 273 Fals thefe, and fowle gadlyng, Thou lyest falsely.
3. A wanderer, wayfarer, vagabond.
a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 41 The wandring gadling, in the sommer tyde, That findes the Adder with his rechlesse foote. 1565Maister Randolphes Phantasey 539 The amased lewsarde..from the wandringe gadlinge hasteth amayne.
4. Hence attrib. (in sense of ‘wandering’, as if formed from a verb gaddle); also as vbl. n.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 98 Nor on the promisde ten alone relyes, But trusts he stealth should more a gaddling lead. c1624Lushington Resur. Serm. (1659) 15 Three way-going women, gadling gossips that came from Galilee. 1676Coles, Gadling, stradling. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gadling (old word), straggling. |