pricket

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

The whole service was gilt, and the bequest included also a pair of magnificent pricket candlesticks, each nearly 20 inches high, with rich stems and massive scrolled bases.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)

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

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