To goad or push someone to act.
Something used to goad or push someone to act.
A stick designed to goad cows, steers, and similar animals in order to prompt them to move in a desired direction, now usually electrified to administer a stimulating shock to the animal.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press together or collect in numbers
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A fiddle.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.