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pricker

British  
/ ˈprɪkə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that pricks

  2. a thorn; prickle

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It would take several expeditions before I found it, perhaps because it was half-overgrown with pricker bush, weeds and small trees.

From New York Times

If the latter happens, it should be at once cut back with the65 pricker, which is also used to test the thickness of the sides and base.

From Project Gutenberg

In his hand he holds a small "push," pressure on which by his fingers operates a minute pricker, which acts upon a moving strip of paper.

From Project Gutenberg

The knot in the loop was a “conscience pricker,” as he expressed it, that a Scout was pledged to do some one a good turn every day.

From Project Gutenberg

Or maybe it all started when the car backed up the slope of the driveway and the tires bumped over the sidewalk between the knee-high pricker hedges.

From The New Yorker