To make active, lively, or interesting.
To cause to regain consciousness, or return as if from death.
To cause to be alive or real.
To encourage, to prompt.
To prick with a goad.
To poke, to push, to touch.
A production; a created work.
A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
A poke.
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.