pricketn.

Brit.

/ˈprɪkɪt/, U.S.

/ˈprɪkət/

Forms: Middle English precat, Middle English priket, Middle English–1500s preket, Middle English–1500s pryket, Middle English–1500s prickettes (plural), 1500s prickett, 1500s prikkett, 1500s prykett, 1500s– pricket; also Scottish pre-1700 precat, pre-1700 preckatt, pre-1700 preikat, pre-1700 preikett, pre-1700 prekat, pre-1700 prekatt, pre-1700 preket, pre-1700 prekkett, pre-1700 pricat, pre-1700 priccat, pre-1700 prickat, pre-1700 prickcat, pre-1700 prickie, pre-1700 prickit, pre-1700 prikat, pre-1700 prikcet, pre-1700 prikett, pre-1700 prikit, pre-1700 prikkat, pre-1700 prikket, pre-1700 proket (transmission error), pre-1700 prycat, pre-1700 pryckat, pre-1700 prykat.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick n., -et suffix¹.

Etymology: < prick n. + -et suffix¹. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames (Willmo Priket (1296), John Priket (1311), Laurentius Priket (1325)), and by borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman: post-classical Latin prikettus candle, spike for holding a candle (1300, 1303, 1352 in British sources), young male deer having straight unbranched antlers (1355, 1365 in British sources; also prikettus de cervo, prikettus cervi (1286, 1334, 1335 in British sources), prikettus dami (1287 in a British source)), Anglo-Norman priket (1323: see below).For borrowing into Anglo-Norman compare:1323 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1915) 30 676 lx lb. de cire achatez..pur faire ent Torches, tortz, priketz, et chaundell pur seruir loustel monsire Hugh le Despenser.The earliest indisputably Middle English example is quot. a1398 at sense 1a; it is uncertain whether quots. a1331 at sense 1a and 1358 at sense 1a immediately show the Middle English word or (as in quot. 1323) borrowing of this into Anglo-Norman. In sense 4, perhaps so called on account of either the awl-shaped leaves or the biting taste of Sedum acre; compare earlier prick-madam n.

†a. A candle or taper, of a kind suitable to be stuck on a spike (cf. sense 1b). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > used in specific type of candlestick

pricketa1331

flat candle1836

a1331 MS. Cott. Galba E. iv. lf. 45 Item parui torticii minores de tribus filis qui vocantur prikettes coram priore in cena..viij. priketti ponderant vnam libram cere.

1358 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 301 (MED) [Waxchandlers..who shall make torches], cierges, torchyz, priketz.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 76^v Candels & prikettis beþ I-set on candelstickes & chaundeleres.

1432 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 130 In torches..priketes, et pierchiers.

c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 451 Preketes [a1500 Douce torches, c1475 Taylor troches] and broketes and standertis by-twene.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 510 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 315 Tho chambur dore stekes þo vssher thenne, With preket and tortes þat conne brenne.

1527 in Visit. Southwell (1891) 129 iij or iiij poundes of prikketts to burne also abowte my herse.

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xxiv. 81/1 Many things bee necessarie and worshippe the Supper... The ninth is plentie of light of Candles, and of Prickets, and of Torches.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 103 All the barronis and gentilmen bure priccattis of waix.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) iv. 197 Walking betwixt two ranks of Barons and Gentlemen..holding every one a proket [? preket] of wax in their hands.

b. A spike for holding a candle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > with spike for candle > spike

pricket1440

prick1497

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Pryket, of candylstykke, or other lyke, stiga.

1535 Inventory Wardrobe Katharine of Arragon 41 in Camden Misc. (1855) III Syxe candil~styckes..wherof ij. with prickettes and iiij. withe sockettis.

1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 70 The taper-candlestick, which is borne in the arms of the Founders' Company, has a spike, or..a pricket, upon which the taper is placed.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xii. 195 The thicker end [of the taper] was hollowed out for the convenience of sticking on the pricket.

1884 A. J. Butler Anc. Coptic Churches Egypt I. 82 The picture is mounted in a frame: before it is fixed a little beam set with a row of prickets for candles.

1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII ii. 76 Monsignor John placed a dispatch-box on the table, a couple of new candles on the prickets; and retired.

1995 A. D. Brown Popular Piety in Late Medieval Eng. iv. 100 Prickets on the hearse allowed lighted tapers to burn during exequies and mass.

a. A male deer (esp. a fallow buck) in its second year, having straight unbranched antlers. †pricket's sister: a female fallow deer in its second year. Cf. brocket n., sorrel n.² 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its second year

brocketa1425

pricketa1425

brockc1515

spittard1538

spitter1565

brocard1607

subulon1607

knub1617

knobber1677

knobbler1686

buck-fawn1786

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > female

doec1000

pricket's sister1657

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 12 Capriolus, a priket.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Pryket [?a1475 Winch. Prik; read Priket], beest, capriolus.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. e iv/a The secunde yere a preket.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 80 (MED) Man..is as..symple and meke as a lambe, swyft and light as a do or a pryket.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 27 I..ioyed oft to chace the trembling Pricket.

1657 M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) 409 Non but dows and faunes and prickets and prickets sisters..tuenty shillins a peece for all thees.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xix. 136 The young pricket..had made off, and joined the herd.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 518/1 At the second year the..‘pricket’ puts forth a simple ‘dag’.

1941 Beaver June 38 Pricket, a two-year-old buck caribou.

1960 M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 125 During the first year the fallow fawn gives no sign of antlers, but in its second it produces a pair of short unbranched prongs which give the fawn its name of pricket.

2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Mar. 9 You can estimate the age of a red deer stag by its antlers... The second year, when it's a pricket, it grows two straight ones.

†b. In extended use: a boy, a young man. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 You with youre pricket [L. tuque puerque tuus] purchast, loa the victorye famouse.

1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E^v I am but a pricket, a meere sorrell, my head's not hardened yet.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xii. 188/1 Prickets, fellows that attend the Hounds, and run along with the Huntsman.

1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams iv. i. xxvii. 180 Their industry industrious to deride, The pricket points the bed; but not the side.

c. The straight unbranched antler of a young male deer. Cf. dag n.³ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > straight and unbranched

dagger1600

pricket1775

upright1856

dag1859

spike-horn1869

switch-horn1880

1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 126 As the animal grows old..the height of the horns, and the number of the branches diminish so much, that at last..there remain no more than two large prickets,or fantastic and ill-shaped knobs.

1855 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds 296 The bucks..never bear other than prickets, or single dags on the head.

1933 W. Welles Blossoming Antlers 24 The small buck... His horns Are hardly more than prickets, That point like tiny thorns.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 23 Dec. (Features section) 26 At four months, a buck fawn has little swellings called pedicles; at a year, little pointed spikes called..prickets.

†3. Scottish. A pinnacle, a spire; a pointed finial. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles

pinnaclec1330

garret1340

filiolec1400

pricket1534

tower-work1653

pinnet1805

pinnaclet1905

1534–5 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 128 For the paynttyne of..all the prekkettis that the thanis standis on.

1571–2 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1958) 7 66 The prikit on the..bellhous.

c1600 in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1884) 150 Ane steeple and pricket of ashler wark upon the east neuk and cunyie.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 18 Outjetting of kernels, erecting of prickets, barbicans, and such like various structures.

1717 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 397 The Contract with the masons for the four vaults of the tolbooth and the pricket was £1000 Sc.

1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 105 In 1767 the pricket received a new covering of lead.

†4. Any of several stonecrops (genus Sedum); esp. biting stonecrop, S. acre. Cf. prick-madam n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop

sengreenc1000

stonecropc1000

orpine?a1300

orval?a1300

mouse grassc1300

stonehorea1400

Crassulac1400

sedumc1440

thrift1538

prick-madam1542

mousetail1548

livelong1578

wall pepper1578

worm-grass1578

country pepper1597

jack of the buttery1597

pricket1597

stone-pepper1597

trick-madam1600

trip-madam1693

midsummer mena1697

rosewort1725

roseroot1731

live forever1760

ice plant1818

wall moss1855

Jacka1876

wall grass1882

thick-leaf1884

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cxxxvii. 415 There is another ἀνδραχνὴ ἀγεια, and another τελέϕιον: the Germains call this herbe Maurpfesser..the Englishmen, Stonecrop and Stonehore, little Stonecrop, Pricket,..Mousebaile, wall Pepper.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Ioubarbe Petite Ioubarbe, the male Prickmadame, or Sengreene the lesser; also, Mousetaile, Pricket, Stonehore, little Stonecrop, Wall-pepper, Countrey~pepper, Iacke of the Butterie.

1747 Bradley's Dict. Plants II Pricket, see Stone-crop.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 926/2 Pricket, or Prick-madam, Sedum acre, album, and reflexum.

†5. A small sharp point or spike; a thorn, a prickle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > thorn or prickle > [noun]

thornc950

pileOE

prickOE

pikec1300

spine1430

pricklec1484

brodc1550

sting1567

point1604

spears1607

stob1637

pin1650

pricket1663

spinet1672

aculeus1702

pricker1743

spicula1753

acicula1784

acicule1800

acicle1852

thornlet1882

sticker1889

1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 202 It inclines to a gentle sweate, or perspiration, & purgeth by Urine, answering to the signature (as generally thistles doe) as if the pricketts opened all the pores to emitte the obnoxious humour.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 7 Each leaf ended with a Pricket.

†6. A moth chrysalis. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis

nymph1577

nympha1601

aurelia1608

chrysalis1658

puppet1671

pricket1707

pupa1770

chrysalid1777

pupe1819

naiad1918

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 327 To prevent their numerous increase on Trees gather them off in Winter, taking away the Prickets which cleave to the Branches, and burn them.

Compounds

pricket candlestick n. a candlestick having one or more spikes (as opposed to sockets, etc.) for holding candles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > with spike for candle

pricker1552

pricket candlestick1552

prick candlestick1565

1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 24 Item ij small prykett candelstickes.

1885 E. S. Morse Japanese Homes (1886) iv. 220 In England the pricket candlestick went out of use a few centuries ago; in Japan it is still retained.

1984 G. Jennings Journeyer (1988) iii. 121 I had to snatch up a pricket candlestick and stab him with that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pricket
释义	pricketn. Brit. /ˈprɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈprɪkət/ Forms: Middle English precat, Middle English priket, Middle English–1500s preket, Middle English–1500s pryket, Middle English–1500s prickettes (plural), 1500s prickett, 1500s prikkett, 1500s prykett, 1500s– pricket; also Scottish pre-1700 precat, pre-1700 preckatt, pre-1700 preikat, pre-1700 preikett, pre-1700 prekat, pre-1700 prekatt, pre-1700 preket, pre-1700 prekkett, pre-1700 pricat, pre-1700 priccat, pre-1700 prickat, pre-1700 prickcat, pre-1700 prickie, pre-1700 prickit, pre-1700 prikat, pre-1700 prikcet, pre-1700 prikett, pre-1700 prikit, pre-1700 prikkat, pre-1700 prikket, pre-1700 proket (transmission error), pre-1700 prycat, pre-1700 pryckat, pre-1700 prykat. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick n., -et suffix¹. Etymology: < prick n. + -et suffix¹. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames (Willmo Priket (1296), John Priket (1311), Laurentius Priket (1325)), and by borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman: post-classical Latin prikettus candle, spike for holding a candle (1300, 1303, 1352 in British sources), young male deer having straight unbranched antlers (1355, 1365 in British sources; also prikettus de cervo, prikettus cervi (1286, 1334, 1335 in British sources), prikettus dami (1287 in a British source)), Anglo-Norman priket (1323: see below).For borrowing into Anglo-Norman compare:1323 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1915) 30 676 lx lb. de cire achatez..pur faire ent Torches, tortz, priketz, et chaundell pur seruir loustel monsire Hugh le Despenser.The earliest indisputably Middle English example is quot. a1398 at sense 1a; it is uncertain whether quots. a1331 at sense 1a and 1358 at sense 1a immediately show the Middle English word or (as in quot. 1323) borrowing of this into Anglo-Norman. In sense 4, perhaps so called on account of either the awl-shaped leaves or the biting taste of Sedum acre; compare earlier prick-madam n. 1. †a. A candle or taper, of a kind suitable to be stuck on a spike (cf. sense 1b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > used in specific type of candlestick pricketa1331 flat candle1836 a1331 MS. Cott. Galba E. iv. lf. 45 Item parui torticii minores de tribus filis qui vocantur prikettes coram priore in cena..viij. priketti ponderant vnam libram cere. 1358 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 301 (MED) [Waxchandlers..who shall make torches], cierges, torchyz, priketz. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 76^v Candels & prikettis beþ I-set on candelstickes & chaundeleres. 1432 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 130 In torches..priketes, et pierchiers. c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 451 Preketes [a1500 Douce torches, c1475 Taylor troches] and broketes and standertis by-twene. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 510 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 315 Tho chambur dore stekes þo vssher thenne, With preket and tortes þat conne brenne. 1527 in Visit. Southwell (1891) 129 iij or iiij poundes of prikketts to burne also abowte my herse. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xxiv. 81/1 Many things bee necessarie and worshippe the Supper... The ninth is plentie of light of Candles, and of Prickets, and of Torches. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 103 All the barronis and gentilmen bure priccattis of waix. a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) iv. 197 Walking betwixt two ranks of Barons and Gentlemen..holding every one a proket [? preket] of wax in their hands. b. A spike for holding a candle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > with spike for candle > spike pricket1440 prick1497 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Pryket, of candylstykke, or other lyke, stiga. 1535 Inventory Wardrobe Katharine of Arragon 41 in Camden Misc. (1855) III Syxe candil~styckes..wherof ij. with prickettes and iiij. withe sockettis. 1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 70 The taper-candlestick, which is borne in the arms of the Founders' Company, has a spike, or..a pricket, upon which the taper is placed. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xii. 195 The thicker end [of the taper] was hollowed out for the convenience of sticking on the pricket. 1884 A. J. Butler Anc. Coptic Churches Egypt I. 82 The picture is mounted in a frame: before it is fixed a little beam set with a row of prickets for candles. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII ii. 76 Monsignor John placed a dispatch-box on the table, a couple of new candles on the prickets; and retired. 1995 A. D. Brown Popular Piety in Late Medieval Eng. iv. 100 Prickets on the hearse allowed lighted tapers to burn during exequies and mass. 2. a. A male deer (esp. a fallow buck) in its second year, having straight unbranched antlers. †pricket's sister: a female fallow deer in its second year. Cf. brocket n., sorrel n.² 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its second year brocketa1425 pricketa1425 brockc1515 spittard1538 spitter1565 brocard1607 subulon1607 knub1617 knobber1677 knobbler1686 buck-fawn1786 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > female doec1000 pricket's sister1657 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 12 Capriolus, a priket. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Pryket [?a1475 Winch. Prik; read Priket], beest, capriolus. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. e iv/a The secunde yere a preket. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 80 (MED) Man..is as..symple and meke as a lambe, swyft and light as a do or a pryket. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 27 I..ioyed oft to chace the trembling Pricket. 1657 M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) 409 Non but dows and faunes and prickets and prickets sisters..tuenty shillins a peece for all thees. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xix. 136 The young pricket..had made off, and joined the herd. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 518/1 At the second year the..‘pricket’ puts forth a simple ‘dag’. 1941 Beaver June 38 Pricket, a two-year-old buck caribou. 1960 M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 125 During the first year the fallow fawn gives no sign of antlers, but in its second it produces a pair of short unbranched prongs which give the fawn its name of pricket. 2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Mar. 9 You can estimate the age of a red deer stag by its antlers... The second year, when it's a pricket, it grows two straight ones. †b. In extended use: a boy, a young man. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 You with youre pricket [L. tuque puerque tuus] purchast, loa the victorye famouse. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E^v I am but a pricket, a meere sorrell, my head's not hardened yet. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xii. 188/1 Prickets, fellows that attend the Hounds, and run along with the Huntsman. 1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams iv. i. xxvii. 180 Their industry industrious to deride, The pricket points the bed; but not the side. c. The straight unbranched antler of a young male deer. Cf. dag n.³ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > straight and unbranched dagger1600 pricket1775 upright1856 dag1859 spike-horn1869 switch-horn1880 1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 126 As the animal grows old..the height of the horns, and the number of the branches diminish so much, that at last..there remain no more than two large prickets,or fantastic and ill-shaped knobs. 1855 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds 296 The bucks..never bear other than prickets, or single dags on the head. 1933 W. Welles Blossoming Antlers 24 The small buck... His horns Are hardly more than prickets, That point like tiny thorns. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 23 Dec. (Features section) 26 At four months, a buck fawn has little swellings called pedicles; at a year, little pointed spikes called..prickets. †3. Scottish. A pinnacle, a spire; a pointed finial. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles pinnaclec1330 garret1340 filiolec1400 pricket1534 tower-work1653 pinnet1805 pinnaclet1905 1534–5 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 128 For the paynttyne of..all the prekkettis that the thanis standis on. 1571–2 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1958) 7 66 The prikit on the..bellhous. c1600 in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1884) 150 Ane steeple and pricket of ashler wark upon the east neuk and cunyie. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 18 Outjetting of kernels, erecting of prickets, barbicans, and such like various structures. 1717 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 397 The Contract with the masons for the four vaults of the tolbooth and the pricket was £1000 Sc. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 105 In 1767 the pricket received a new covering of lead. †4. Any of several stonecrops (genus Sedum); esp. biting stonecrop, S. acre. Cf. prick-madam n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cxxxvii. 415 There is another ἀνδραχνὴ ἀγεια, and another τελέϕιον: the Germains call this herbe Maurpfesser..the Englishmen, Stonecrop and Stonehore, little Stonecrop, Pricket,..Mousebaile, wall Pepper. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Ioubarbe Petite Ioubarbe, the male Prickmadame, or Sengreene the lesser; also, Mousetaile, Pricket, Stonehore, little Stonecrop, Wall-pepper, Countrey~pepper, Iacke of the Butterie. 1747 Bradley's Dict. Plants II Pricket, see Stone-crop. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 926/2 Pricket, or Prick-madam, Sedum acre, album, and reflexum. †5. A small sharp point or spike; a thorn, a prickle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > thorn or prickle > [noun] thornc950 pileOE prickOE pikec1300 spine1430 pricklec1484 brodc1550 sting1567 point1604 spears1607 stob1637 pin1650 pricket1663 spinet1672 aculeus1702 pricker1743 spicula1753 acicula1784 acicule1800 acicle1852 thornlet1882 sticker1889 1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 202 It inclines to a gentle sweate, or perspiration, & purgeth by Urine, answering to the signature (as generally thistles doe) as if the pricketts opened all the pores to emitte the obnoxious humour. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 7 Each leaf ended with a Pricket. †6. A moth chrysalis. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis nymph1577 nympha1601 aurelia1608 chrysalis1658 puppet1671 pricket1707 pupa1770 chrysalid1777 pupe1819 naiad1918 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 327 To prevent their numerous increase on Trees gather them off in Winter, taking away the Prickets which cleave to the Branches, and burn them. Compounds pricket candlestick n. a candlestick having one or more spikes (as opposed to sockets, etc.) for holding candles. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > with spike for candle pricker1552 pricket candlestick1552 prick candlestick1565 1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 24 Item ij small prykett candelstickes. 1885 E. S. Morse Japanese Homes (1886) iv. 220 In England the pricket candlestick went out of use a few centuries ago; in Japan it is still retained. 1984 G. Jennings Journeyer (1988) iii. 121 I had to snatch up a pricket candlestick and stab him with that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1331
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