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The answer GOAD has 241 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of goad in various dictionaries:
noun - a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
noun - a verb alization that encourages you to attempt something
verb - give heart or courage to
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Spur |
| Prod |
| Incite |
| Cattle driver |
| Dare into doing |
| Egg on |
| Prod into action |
| Push |
| Poke |
| Stick with the herd? |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| To urge or spur someone on |
| Change a letter in "good" & you get this word meaning "incite" |
| This 4-letter word means to spur, push or impel |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them: |
| to cause someone to do something by being annoying: |
| A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals. |
| An agent or means of prodding or urging a stimulus. |
| To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick. |
| Drive (an animal) with a spiked stick. |
| Provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction. |
| A spiked stick used for driving cattle. |
| drive (an animal) with a spiked stick. |
| a spiked stick used for driving cattle. |
| Goad description |
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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 gd.* In Oedipus the King, the play by Sophocles, Laius, the biological father of Oedipus, tried to kill his son with a goad when they accidentally met at a juncture of three roads. They did not know at the time that they were father and son. Oedipus explains to Jocasta, his mother and wife, what took place: "When in my journey I was near those three roads, there met me a herald, and a man seated in a carriage drawn by colts, as thou hast described; and he who was in front, and the old man himself, were for thrusting me rudely from the path. Then, in anger, I struck him who pushed me aside. -- the driver; and the old man, seeing it, watched the moment when I was passing, and, from the carriage, b |
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