To spur on, strongly recommend.
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To foster, give help or patronage
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.