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^[1], 2005 November, archived from the original on 14 March 2006.