gaddern.1
/ˈɡadə/, U.S. /ˈɡædər/ A person who gads or gads about; (now esp.) one who goes to many social events or travels to many places for pleasure; a gadabout.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly > one who
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?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) iii. sig. Rrij Gadders to Compostel, Rome, Tryer and Tholose.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 98 Gadders, pylgrymes and ydoll sekers.
1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife sig. B2v Chuse thee no gadder (for a wife should bee..like to a Snaile), Who (hous-wifelike) still in her house we see.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper Epil. sig. I5v When these grow up, Lord with what Rampant Gadders Our Counters will be throng'd.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Bandog, a Dog..not..too gentle of Disposition, nor lavish of his Barking, no Gadder.
1777 S. Johnson Let. 19 May (1992) III. 26 You will become such a Gadder.
1848 Punch 19 Aug. 75/2 England's really pretty, And we are no gadders... So I think..We'll stay quiet at home, dears, this summer.
1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 682/1 A gadder after amusements.
1939 N.Y. Times 4 June xx. 8/2 The real gadders will avoid the well-worn trails.
1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Sept. 25 In the past I have been, not exactly rake of this parish, but definitely something of a gadder.
Compounds
With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at gad v.1† gadder-abroad n. Obsolete
gadder-about n.
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1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 106 An idle gadder about.
1685 E. Fowler Serm. Meeting Gloucestershire-men 26 It makes them Idle and Gadders about.
1773 Craftsman 4 Sept. From examples set here, she becomes a gadder about.
1850 Natchez (Mississippi) Courier 10 Sept. The gadder-about pats C. upon his back, and swears that his wealth is just sufficient.
1937 Illustr. London News 23 Oct. 722/2 The eldest was a lazy hypochondriac, the youngest a selfish gadder-about.
1992 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 1 Nov. (Spectrum section) 4/1 The Cancer Fund, for example, attracts the very icing of Hongkong gadders-about.
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c1560 T. Becon Sycke Mannes Salue f. cxiiii Be no gadders abroade nor haunters of Tauernes.
1575 J. Cox tr. H. Bullinger Exhort. to Ministers of Gods Woord 166 A wife that is dizzard.., a babler, light of behauiour.., slothfull, a gadder abroad.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. Concl. 207 Hauing brought my houshold to a few, and them no gadders abroad, but such as were easily commanded to stay within.
1720 C. Shadwell Sham Prince iv. in Five New Plays 175 Their Wives, most of them,..are no Gadders abroad.
1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 925/2 She was no gadder abroad, though she went to church every Sunday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gaddern.2
/ˈɡadə/, U.S. /ˈɡædər/ Mining. Now rare.
A machine designed to drill a straight line of holes in rock, used in the process of breaking up and removing rock from its bed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] > wedges
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1871 Manufacturer & Builder Oct. 224/1 The ‘gadder’ is now in constant use in many of the leading marble quarries of Vermont.
1887 Sci. Amer. 56 21 It is claimed for the diamond gadder that it will do its work at the rate of 180 feet a day.
1918 H. P. Gillette Handbk. Rock Excavation (rev. ed.) 549 Fig. 122 shows a channeler, and gadder.
2001 E. Twitty Blown to Bits in Mine iv. 142 Early gadders, most having been custom made, consisted of modified quarry bars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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