Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gadding

Gadding , adjective and noun

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. — Bacon
The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. — Tennyson
Collocations (1)
Gadding car , in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.