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cattle prodding

cattle prodding is the present participle and gerund of cattle prod.

Meaning of cattle prod

Verb

cattle prod (third-person singular simple present cattle prods, present participle cattle prodding, simple past and past participle cattle prodded)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To goad or push someone to act.
    • (They cattle prodded people trying to get them to move, but to no avail.)

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Questions about cattle prodding

What is cattle prodding the present participle and gerund of?
Cattle prodding is the present participle and gerund of cattle prod.

Words near cattle prodding in the dictionary

  1. cattle plague
  2. cattle post
  3. cattle posts
  4. cattle prod
  5. cattle prodded
  6. cattle prodding
  7. cattle prods
  8. cattle ranch
  9. cattle ranches
  10. cattle station
  11. cattle stations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cattle prodding (page history and authors); cattle prod (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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