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

And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur

I sthe deer was not a haud credo; 'twas 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.