gad¹ /gad/

1. A miner's wedge or chisel
2. A metal spike or pointed bar (obsolete)
3. A spear (also gade or gaid /gād/; obsolete)
4. An engraver's stylus (Shakespeare)
5. A rod or stick (obsolete)
6. A goad (dialect)
7. The bar across a Scottish condemned cell, on which the iron ring ran which fastened the shackles (historical)

gadˈling noun (obsolete)

One of the spikes on the knuckles of a gauntlet

upon the gad (Shakespeare)

On the spur of the moment

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