pricket
Americannoun
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a sharp metal point on which to stick a candle.
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a candlestick with one or more such points.
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a buck in his second year.
noun
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a male deer in the second year of life having unbranched antlers
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a sharp metal spike on which to stick a candle
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a candlestick having such a spike
Etymology
Origin of pricket
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at prick, -et
Example Sentences
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The appendage in question was named a "pricket bat", and it was used to burst balloons.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013
Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.
The old foresters had different names for a buck during each successive year of its life, distinguishing the fawn from the pricket, the pricket from the sore, and so forth, as its age increased.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
The dogs did yell; put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket- Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
The dogs did yell; put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur
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