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goad stick

goad stick noun: a stick used as a goad.

Noun

goad stick (plural goad sticks)

  1. A stick used as a goad.
    • 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.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

Forms of goad stick

pluralgoad sticks

Questions about goad stick

What does goad stick mean?
Goad stick means a stick used as a goad.
What part of speech is goad stick?
Goad stick is a noun.
What is the plural of goad stick?
The plural of goad stick is goad sticks.

Words near goad stick in the dictionary

  1. Goa powder
  2. Goa powders
  3. Goa stone
  4. Goa stones
  5. goad
  6. goad stick
  7. goad sticks
  8. Goadby
  9. goaded
  10. goader
  11. goaders

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