prickers

These will be succeeded by the crop from "prickers" or seedlings started under glass in January or

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

Ended up cut up worse than ever due to all the briars and prickers.

Hunt for a Club-Footed Hog 2009

Ended up cut up worse than ever due to all the briars and prickers.

Hunt for a Club-Footed Hog 2009

The ends of their seared hair stood out in tangles of impish invitation, little prickers.

Pheasant Hunt 2010

Sometimes bushes swallowed up the track; my hands got all scratched and sticky, and prickers embedded themselves in my clothes.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

"I've heard of witch-prickers with special pins-made to collapse when they're pressed against the skin, so it looks as though they don't go in."

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

One is a two-lobed pear-shaped kind of thing with short dense thick white prickers; the other is a ridged round morningstar-head-shaped creature with clusters of long red prickers.

john dillinger is alive and well and living in-- netcurmudgeon 2007

“Let me go first,” she said, whacking a way through the prickers with her stick.

A Deer Scouting Holiday 2007

Also, Henry Vaughan gave me, from my said cousin, a good horse, and a purse of gold, with two Border-prickers, as they are called, for my guides, who conducted me, by such roads and by-paths as have never been seen since the days of Sir Lancelot and Sir

The Monastery 2008

The role of gender and the psychology of masculinity in relation to male accusers and professional ‘witch hunters’ eg: witch finders like Matthew Hopkins; judicial officials like Daniel Hauff in Esslingen; executioners, witch prickers etc.

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