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pricket

noun
/ˈpɹɪkɪt/UK

Etymology

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

  1. inherited from precat

Definitions

  1. A candle.

  2. A spike for holding a single candle.

    • Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.

  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.

    • Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter
    • he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA