Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gad-stick.

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  • Caistor Church, Lincolnshire, famous for the curious old ceremony of the gad-whip, was also celebrated for its clerk, old Joshua Foster, who was officiating there in 1884 at the time of the advent of a new vicar.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

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