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Qué (quién) es Goad - definición

TOOL USED TO GUIDE LIVESTOCK IN MOTION
Ox goad; Goading; Ox-goad; Oxgoad
  • [[Plough]]ing with [[ox]]en: a miniature from an early-16th-century [[manuscript]] held at the [[British Museum]]. The ploughman on the right appears to carry a goad. The ox on the left appears to react to it. Note the spike or prod at the end of this goad.

goad         
[g??d]
¦ verb
1. provoke to action or reaction.
2. drive with a spiked stick.
¦ noun
1. a spiked stick used for driving cattle.
2. a thing that stimulates someone into action.
Origin
OE gad, of Gmc origin.
goad         
v.
1) (D; tr.) to goad into (to goad smb. into doing smt.)
2) (H) he kept goading me to fight
goad         
(goads, goading, goaded)
If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something.
He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response...
Charles was always goading me.
VERB: V n into n/-ing, V n
Goad is also a noun.
His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.
N-COUNT

Wikipedia

Goad

The goad is a traditional farming implement, used to spur or guide livestock, usually oxen, which are pulling a plough or a cart; used also to round up cattle. It is a type of long stick with a pointed end, also known as the cattle prod.

The word is from Middle English gode, from Old English gād.

In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, Oedipus's father Laius tried to kill his son with a goad when they accidentally met at a crossroads.

Ejemplos de uso de Goad
1. We do not say this to goad the Jews, but out of our own free will.
2. Dunham of Business Week tried to goad him into a red–meat speech.
3. Their lawyer has repeatedly said they did nothing to goad the animal.
4. Workers goad oxen teams, trailed by fluttering clouds of white egrets.
5. Curole, the tide of woes has become a goad to action.