pricker

How to use pricker in a sentence

• One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels.

  The White Company | Arthur Conan Doyle

• 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.

  Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer | Rena I. Halsey

• The whole affair goes safely in the pocket; the quill acting as a sheath to the sharp pricker.

  The Art of Travel | Francis Galton