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goad sticks

goad sticks is the plural of goad stick.

Meaning of goad stick

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

Questions about goad sticks

What is goad sticks the plural of?
Goad sticks is the plural of goad stick.

Words near goad sticks in the dictionary

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

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