Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small point or spike for holding a candle upright.
- noun A candlestick having such a spike.
- noun A male deer in its second year, before the antlers branch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sharp iron point upon which a candle may be stuck; hence, a candlestick, either separate or one of several connected together. Also
prick . - noun Hence A wax taper.
- noun A buck in his second year: probably so called from his horns. See
spike . - noun The wall-pepper or biting stonecrop, Sedum acre.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A buck in his second year. See
note under 3dbuck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male deer in his second year
- noun a sharp metal spike to hold a candle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The senior maid ordered everyone to go back to sleep and, to emphasise the point, snuffed all the candles, even the thick night one on its pricket.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.
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Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
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And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.
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The young males which our fallow deer do bring forth are commonly named according to their several ages: for the first year it is a fawn, the second a pricket, the third a sorel, the fourth a soare, the fifth a buck of the first head, not bearing the name of a buck till he be five years old: and from henceforth his age is commonly known by his head or horns.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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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.
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Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson
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I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.
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And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that twas a pricket that the princess killed.
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The preyful princess piercd and prickd a pretty pleasing pricket;
sionnach commented on the word pricket
A buck in its second year, before the antlers branch.
November 1, 2007