A rod or stick with one end sharpened to a point or fitted with a spike and used to drive or spur livestock, esp. a team of draught animals…

An instrument for making or inflicting a prick, or for piercing something; †a goad (obsolete). Also figurative and in figurative context. In…

A staff or stick carried in the hand as a walking stick, or by a shepherd or herdsman. Obsolete.

A goad for driving cattle, esp. oxen. Chiefly (now only) in figurative context with allusion to Acts ix. 5: see to kick against the pricks (spur,…

A sharp-pointed rod or stick used to drive or spur oxen, horses, etc.; a goad. Later also: (chiefly regional) a whip used for this purpose; (chiefly…

= gare, n.1, a spear or javelin.

A goad, prick, pointed instrument.

A prick, a goad.

A goad, a spur. Obsolete.

(a) Scottish a goad; = sense 2; (b) a measuring rod; = sense 8a.

a goad; = sense 2a.

A goad.

a pointed rod or stick used to drive or spur livestock, esp. a team of draught animals; = sense 1b.

In South Asia: a goad consisting of a stick with a metal hook on the end used for training and handling elephants.

A pointed rod or stick used to drive or spur livestock, esp. a team of draught animals; = goad, n.1 1b. Also in figurative contexts.

A strong and heavy whip made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, used in South Africa for driving cattle and sometimes for administering chastisement.

a stick used to drive animals to a particular place.

Any of various pointed instruments, as a skewer, a poker, a goad, etc. Frequently with modifying word indicating the type of implement or the thing…

A spike used for driving cattle.

A whip; spec. a riding whip with a short handle and a braided leather lash.

(See quots.)

†(a) English regional (Lincolnshire) a measuring rod; = sense 8a (obsolete); (b) a goad; = sense 2a; cf. goad stick, n.

A type of long-handled braided whip or quirt attached to a pair of reins, traditionally used in driving cattle. Now frequently attributive.