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pricket

[prik-it] / ˈprɪk ɪt /
NOUN
candlestick
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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

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

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

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 preyful Princess pierc'd and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket;   Some say a sore; but not a sore till now made sore with shooting.

From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William




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