Pricket
//ˈpɹɪkɪt// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A candle. obsolete
- 2 male deer in his second year wordnet
- 3 A spike for holding a single candle.
"Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets."
- 4 a sharp metal spike to hold a candle wordnet
- 5 A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
"Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter"
Example
More examples"Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets."
Etymology
From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
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