gadding

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.

Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

Restlessness and excitement in horses, to a lesser extent cattle, because of the presence of biting flies, more specifically warble flies in cattle and bot flies in horses.