A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
the daily goad urging him to the daily toil
That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
A surname.
From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old I...
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