What is "proddings"

Usage examples of "proddings".

The subsequent sly proddings and testings were reported immediately to Chapter House by Tamalane and her subordinates.

I watched him, still feeling the hot proddings of anger but beginning to get control of myself now.

After Glow's disenchantment, performed by Charles with proddings from Helbah, he had feared they might dabble.

The foetus, exerting itself, had become a baby, and the baby could only become a man by the proddings of a thousand new stimuli.

The War Office has been fairly open-minded and helpful, but I think it is true to say that the higher ranks within the Home Guard have fought steadily against a realistic view of war and that all experimentation and attempts at serious training have been due to proddings from below.