Goad vs. Prod — What's the Difference?

The goad is a traditional farming implement, used to spur or guide livestock, usually oxen, which are pulling a plough or a cart; used also to round up cattle. It is a type of long stick with a pointed end, also known as the cattle prod.

Used as a disparaging term for a Protestant.

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

A pointed object used to prod

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

An incitement; a stimulus.

To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.

To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.

A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.

To goad to action; incite.

(figurative) That which goads or incites; a stimulus.

(transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.

To prod with a goad.

To encourage, to prompt.

To encourage or stimulate.

(transitive) To prick with a goad.

To incite or provoke.

A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.

A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.

To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

A poke.

A pointed instrument used to prod into motion

A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;

A production; a created work.

Give heart or courage to

A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

Urge with or as if with a goad

A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.

Prod or urge as if with a log stick

A light kind of crossbow; - in the sense, often spelled prodd.

Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;

To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;

A pointed instrument used to prod into motion

To push against gently;

Urge on; cause to act;

Poke or thrust abruptly;