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Cattleman's prod
Answer for the clue "Cattleman's prod ", 4 letters:
goad
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Word definitions for goad in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken. ▪ Each year Asbury tried to reach every state in order to goad his men and to supervise their work. ▪ He repeated it constantly, goading ...
Usage examples of goad.
Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.
Disturbance at home immediately succeeds to peace abroad: the commons were goaded by the tribunes with the excitement of the agrarian law.
Goaded by his voice, Hem, Groce, Mara, and Biset picked up the limp alien body and carried it away.
Lifting coyly questioning eyes to meet his stare, she dared to goad him.
The old human woman bolted suddenly forward through the air, as the fearful sinistral goaded its dextrier on to a sudden burst of speed.
Unconsciously they would always goad each other by overplaying their chosen roles of the omniscient, donnish theorist and the practical, plain-speaking soldier, even when they were in basic agreement.
Goad says he took the dough but never intended to follow through, saw it as a perfect way to con Doss and cut town with a grand.
However irritating he was, she would not allow this effete Terran to goad her into rash actions or speech.
SHADE OF EARTH What boots it, Sire, To down this dynasty, set that one up, Goad panting peoples to the throes thereof, Make wither here my fruit, maintain it there, And hold me travailling through fineless years In vain and objectless monotony, When all such tedious conjuring could be shunned By uncreation?
Lennox off with a false reason for his accompanying Ruthven alone in the house of Gowrie, James privately arranges that Ruthven shall quietly summon him, or Erskine, to follow upstairs, meaning to goad Ruthven into a treasonable attitude just as they appear on the scene.
They used ox goads as spears, and sometimes their mock battles became fierce and Saban noted approvingly that Leir did not complain when he was pierced in the arm so deeply that the blood ran to drip from his fingers.
The occasional appearances of Gussie Gryll goad me into a new awareness of how much she means to me, especially as she and Gussie have now struck up a friendship based on jokes and, God help us, mock gallantry from him and mock maidenliness from her.
Butt poking in the air, Ouzo wagged his tail and barked again in an effort to goad the cat into running.
It sounded like a war zone behind them as Renate whooped and goaded as if she were enjoying every minute of it.
Bannor forced himself to turn a blind eye to their devilish doings, promising himself that every humiliation Willow endured at their hands would only serve to spare her pride when she was finally goaded into spurning him.