See Also: goad(1)(dictionary)
goad(2)(dictionary)
goad 1, verb(dictionary)
goad 2, noun(dictionary)
ground 4,(dictionary)
ground zero(dictionary)
LOT OF GROUND(law)
Ground Up(money)
Ground(medicine)
ground(2)(dictionary)

ground(2) (iou) and goad(1) (iou)


ground(2) (iou)



ground ppl adjective. LME.
[pa. pple of GRIND verb.]
Reduced to fine particles by grinding or crushing. Also foll. by down. LME.
b. fig. Foll. by down: exhausted, worn out. E20.
c. Of meat: minced. Chiefly N. Amer. E20.
Shaped or sharpened by grinding; having the surface abraded or polished by grinding. L16.
Special collocations & comb.: ground-down a short thick pointed Sewing-needle. ground glass (a) powdered glass; (b) glass made semi-opaque by having its surface roughened. ground wood wood pulp.

goad(1) (iou)



goad noun.
[Old English gad = Lombard gaida arrowhead, from Germanic.]
A pointed stick for driving cattle. OE.
b. fig. Anything which torments, excites, or stimulates. M16.
E. P. Thompson Poverty was an essential goad to industry.
A linear measure, orig. the length of a goad. Also, a square measure of varying quantity. Long obsolete exc. dial. LME.
Comb.: goadman, goadsman a cattle-driver.