noun
definition
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
definition
That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
verb
definition
To prod with a goad.
definition
To encourage or stimulate.
definition
To incite or provoke.
example
goading a boy to fight
Examples of goad in a Sentence
For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil.
An ox goad was used by a farmer, or a farm laborer.
Surprise them with football tickets, romantic nights on the town or just goad them into a cook-off challenge; they'll love it!
The goad is an elephant goad, used to produce movement from inertia.
The ox was driven forward to the altar, on which grain was spread, by members of the family of the Kentriadae (from ithi rpov, a goad), on whom this duty devolved hereditarily.
The name has been derived (1) from (goad) and Tavpos (bull), implying a people who were primarily herdsmen, (2) from and the common termination -avpos or aiipa (" air ") spearmen."
It says that he used an ox goad to slay these 600 Philistines.
Napoleon was dissatisfied with these terms, and although he ultimately ratified the treaty, he sent General Lannes to Lisbon as his ambassador, instructing him to humiliate the Portuguese and if possible to goad them into a renewal of the war.
The fable of the centaurs, if the derivation from to goad, Taupos, bull, be accepted (but see Centaur), would indicate the early existence of pastoral peoples living on horseback, like the modern cowboys (cp. "cow-punchers") or gauchos of North and South America.