What does goad stick mean?

goad stick

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

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"There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad-sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki-yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself."

goad sticks (plural)

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