prod

Meanings

Verb

• To poke, to push, to touch.
• To encourage, to prompt.
• To prick with a goad.

Noun

• A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
• A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
• A poke.
• A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
• A production; a created work.

Origin

• From Middle English brodden, from Old Norse broddr ("shaft, spike"), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod.
• Shortened from production.