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gaid, gade Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.
[Phonetically equivalent to goad, OE. gád, but in sense 1 connected with gad n.1 2.]
1. A bar of metal; esp. the iron bar which formerly crossed the condemned cell in a Scotch prison, upon which ran the iron ring which fastened the shackles.
a1500Rowlis Cursing 263 Lyk to ane gaid of yrne or steill That doun war sinkand in ane weell. 1629in Pitcairn Crim. Trials Scot. I. 68* note, They instantlie wardit him, and patt baith his feitt on the gade. 1647in Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 92 He is decerned to plenish the gaid Sufficientlie with seaven sufficient shakellis. [1829Scott Guy M. lvii foot-note, When a man received sentence of death he was put upon the gad, as it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text.]
2. = goad.
1682Peden in Biogr. Presbyt. (1838) I. 51 Their Theats will burn, and their Swingletrees will fall to the Ground..and the Gade-men will throw away their Gades. |