Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ceramics, ornamented with small indentations made by the end of a slender rod, or, for economy of time, with a sort of comb of from three to six teeth.
- Same as
piqué .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prick .
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Examples
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However, our federal budget is being pin pricked to death.
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, our federal budget is being pin pricked to death.
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Great images — I could totally see her with the pin pricked darkness and her alabaster tower.
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Many of the headstones are boards, naturally; and one poor fellow, whose estate at death was probably a minus quantity, is commemorated by a strip of tin with his name pricked into it.
Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California Angelo Hall
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; the phrase pricked his imagination -- he swelled to it.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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Something in his sudden change of expression pricked my curiosity.
Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006
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And the sound of my own name pricked me up to listen sharply with my one good ear.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Chekov had almost forgotten the Universal Translator on his belt until the alien word pricked it into action.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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The thought of Diana sitting at table with such a person on equal terms pricked him with annoyance; for he had all his mother's fastidiousness, though it showed itself in different forms.
The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885
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And the sound of my own name pricked me up to listen sharply with my one good ear.
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