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

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.

Among the varieties are the earliest form of pricket candlestick on which the candle was "stuck," the bell candlesticks, and the candlesticks which were fixed on brackets against the wall.

From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)

Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.

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