goad stick

English

Noun

goad stick (plural goad sticks)

  1. 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, 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.

References
  • “goad stick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “Notable and Quotable”, in Merriam–Webster Online Newsletter‎, 2005 November, archived from the original on 14 March 2006.
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