Difference between Goad and Prod

GOAD vs PROD: NOUN

A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
A stick, rod, or staff with a pointed end, used for driving cattle; hence, anything that urges or stimulates.
A decoy at an auction; a Peter Funk.
[Cf. yard, rod, perch, as measures of length.] A little-used English Measure of length.
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
A sort of false die.
A plaything.
A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
A pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
A pointed instrument used to prod into motion

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
A pointed instrument used to prod into motion
A pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
A device (often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.
A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.
A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
A pyramidal or conical point which protrudes from the face of a loam-plate or a core-plate for the purpose of holding or retaining the loam.
A crossbow used for throwing balls of metal or stone. Compare stone-bow.
A long wooden pin used to secure thatch upon a roof. See the quotation.
A pointed (often blunt-pointed) weapon or instrument, as a goad or an awl.
An incitement; a stimulus.
A pointed object used to prod.
[⟨ prod, v.] A prick or punch with a pointed or somewhat blunt instrument; a poke.

To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.

To goad to action; incite.
To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.
To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; ; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry.

Synonyms To impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on.
To prick; drive with a goad; hence, to incite; stimulate; instigate; urge forward or rouse to action by any harassing or irritating means.

Provoke, Browbeat, Cajole, Stimulus, Urge, Stimulate, Incite, Needle, Nettle, Urging, Spurring, Prick, Spur, Prodding, Prod

Stimulate, Push, Poke at, Egg on, Jab, Incite, Dig, Spurring, Urging, Stab, Goading, Spur, Poke, Goad, Nudge

Instigate, Taunt, Provoke, Browbeat, Cajole, Stimulus, Urge, Stimulate, Needle, Nettle, Urging, Spurring, Spur, Prodding, Prod

Needle, Impel, Urge, Stimulate, Push, Egg on, Jab, Dig, Spurring, Urging, Stab, Goading, Spur, Poke, Nudge