Gad
- (acronym) . eneralized Anxiety Disorder.
- Proper noun. (biblical) Seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
- Proper noun. (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Gad.
- Proper noun. (given name, male) .
- Interjection. An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
- Noun. A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
- Noun. (obsolete) A metal bar.
- Noun. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
- Noun. (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
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