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goad

  [gohd]
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–noun
1. a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
2. anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
3. something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
–verb (used with object)
4. to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME gode, OE gād; cf. Langobardic gaida spearhead

Related forms:
goadlike, adjective

Synonyms:
4. spur, push, impel.
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goad   (gōd)   
n.  

  1. A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.

  2. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.

tr.v.   goad·ed, goad·ing, goads
To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.

[Middle English gode, from Old English gād.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

goad  (n.)
O.E. gad "spearhead," from P.Gmc. *gaido (cf. Lombardic gaida "spear"), from PIE *ghai- (cf. Skt. hetih "missile, projectile," O.Ir. gae "spear"). Figurative use is since 16c., probably from the Bible. The verb is from 1579.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Goad

(Heb. malmad, only in Judg. 3: 31), an instrument used by ploughmen for guiding their oxen. Shamgar slew six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad. "The goad is a formidable weapon. It is sometimes ten feet long, and has a sharp point. We could now see that the feat of Shamgar was not so very wonderful as some have been accustomed to think." In 1 Sam. 13:21, a different Hebrew word is used, _dorban_, meaning something pointed. The expression (Acts 9:5, omitted in the R.V.), "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks", i.e., against the goad, was proverbial for unavailing resistance to superior power.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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