gad

Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there?

And we'll prepare our limber gads,

Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;

I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.

they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.

Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.

Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings.