Well adapted for cutting or piercing; having a keen edge or point: opposed to blunt. Prickly. Obsolete.

That causes a sensation of prickling; (also) having prickles, prickly.

Of an animal, plant, object, surface, etc.: having or bearing prickles; full of or covered with prickles, or prickle-like projections.

Esp. of a plant or animal: covered in or set with prickles; prickly.

Of the nature of or resembling a thistle; spiny, prickly; consisting of or constituted by thistles. (In 1611, made of ‘thistles’, i.e. teasel-heads.)

somewhat prickly.

Furnished with spikelets; bristly.

Furnished with a bristle.

resembling or suggesting a thistle.

bristly, rough.

Rough and prickly like a burr.