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pricket

[ UK /pɹˈɪkɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sharp metal spike to hold a candle
  2. male deer in his second year

How To Use pricket In A Sentence

  • Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? and, to humour the ignorant, I have call’d the deer the princess killed, a pricket. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • 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. Love's Labour's Lost
  • 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. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • 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
  • The preyful princess pierc’d and prick’d a pretty pleasing pricket; Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • An oxherd hight Bubulcus, and is ordained by office to keep oxen: He feedeth and nourisheth oxen, and bringeth them to leas and home again: and bindeth their feet with a langhaldes and spanells and nigheth and cloggeth them while they be in pasture and leas, and yoketh and maketh them draw at the plough: and pricketh the slow with a goad, and maketh them draw even. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
  • I said the deer was not a haud credo; ’twas a pricket. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • 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
  • And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  • Concerning this poor “student in the mathematickes” Prickett testified before the court: “Thomas Widowes was thrust out of the ship into the shallop, but whether he willed them take his keys and share his goods, to save his life, this examinate knoweth not.” Henry Hudson
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