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

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

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.

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

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