goad stick
English
Noun
goad stick (plural goad sticks)
- A stick used as a goad.
- 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], OCLC 35710691, page 58:
- There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad-sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki-yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself.
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References
- goad stick at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Notable and Quotable”, in Merriam–Webster Online Newsletter, November 2005, archived from the original on 2006-03-14, retrieved 25 December 2005.