gadder

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The girl must be sixteen, or thereabout, of decent behaviour and tractable, no gadder or lover of finery, healthy, able to read, an early riser, and, if possible, devout.

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  1. A rambler; one who roves idly about. Sincere or not, the resident Londoners were great playgoers, and gadders generally. Doran, Annals of Eng. Stage, I. xii.
  2. In quarrying, same as gadding-machine. It is claimed for the diamond gadder that it will do its work at the rate of 180 feet a day in rock of as soft and even a texture as marble. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVI. 21.

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