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verb

Prod v. t. (past & past part. prodded; pres. part. prodding) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.

noun

Prod n.

A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.

A light kind of crossbow; in the sense, often spelled prodd.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prod" Quotes from Famous Books

... pour out an unceasing torrent of foul words. But he had not the faintest idea how to use a stick, whereas my practice with the foils at the gymnasium had made me quite skilful. From time to time he raised his bludgeon and ran in at me, but a sharp prod under the upraised arm always sent him leaping back out of reach with ...

— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman

... seen good shooting with the prod and with the latch," said Aylward, "but, by my hilt! camarade, with all respect to you and to your bow, I think that is but a woman's weapon, which a woman can point and loose as easily ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

... consists in blistering your wife, or giving her, with a mental needle, a prod whose violence is such as to make a ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac

... I answered. "And when it comes there will be no genteel lodgings, but Theobald and I will take care of you somewhere. In a little house it may be, but one with a garden where you can walk in the sun in winter mornings as you do now, and prod at the weeds in the path as you do now ...

— The Story of Bawn • Katharine Tynan

... up there are no thorns to prod, Nor boulders lurking 'neath the clod To turn the keenness of the share, For flight is ever free and rare; But heroes they the soil who 've trod, ...

— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar

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