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

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

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

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 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

Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.

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