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
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
Why, there was a buck I had shot in Hogley Woods, a magnificent pricket, and do you know how she had it sent up to table?
From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Wilde, Oscar
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
And, to humour the ignorant, I have call'd the deer the Princess killed, a pricket.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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.
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