goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
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While the crowd still sways and surges, Ere the applauding shouts have ceas'd, See, the second bull emerges— 'Tis the famed Cordovan beast,— By the picador ungoaded, Scathless of the chulo's dart.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke