prickingn.

Brit.

/ˈprɪkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈprɪkɪŋ/

Forms: see prick v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English prekyinge, Middle English pricknig (in a late copy, transmission error), Middle English pricknyge (transmission error), Middle English pricunge.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < prick v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Old Saxon precunga action of pressing a burning iron on a surface.For a possible earlier example of the word in sense 2 compare the following example:a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 145 Þer scal beon..smellinge mid swetnesse and dunge [perh. read ðenunge] wið-uten prikunge.However, the precise interpretation of prikunge depends upon the explanation of the difficult word dunge earlier in the sentence: Morris's tentative emendation to ðenunge ‘service’ has not been universally accepted (although Middle Eng. Dict. does so, and (s.v. priking(e ger.) glosses prikunge as ‘urging to action’).

a. The action or process of piercing, puncturing, or wounding with, or as with, a pointed instrument or weapon. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative: the infliction of mental or emotional pain, as grief, distress, sorrow, remorse, regret, etc. Also: an instance of this; a physical, metal, or emotional wounding.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > transplanting

prickingOE

transplantation1601

transplanting1608

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vi. 53 Hi ða sawla toterað mid pricungum mislicra geðohta.

c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. F) l. 31 Ic was mid þine prickunge ipin[ed ful] sore.

a1300 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 3 (MED) Of þe þornes prikung, min hiued urnth a blode.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xix. 28 Opon þe dede ȝe sholen not kytte ȝoure flesch, ne eny..prikkynges ȝe sholyn make to ȝow.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 118 (MED) Þei bigan for to arise wiþ dreede fro peyne and fro manyefoold prickynges of tribulaciouns.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157 Þai bene put vpon bityngez & prickyngez [?c1425 Paris styngynges] & venemous pustulez þat þe venom be drawe out fro þam.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPiii^v Without drede or feare, scrupull or prickyng of conscience.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2183 My payne, with prickyng in hert.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 612 By thornes and prickings of bushes.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 328 To the pricking and astonishing of thy heart.

1704 Dict. Rusticum Cloyed, or Accloy'd, is no other, than the pricking of an Horse with a Nail in the Shooing.

1743 Thoughts in Sickness 5 Too long I've roar'd in uncorrected Smart, Without the Prickings of a contrite Heart!

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 205 Those elected to this function Ne'er feel the prickings of compunction.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 768 The exudation of sebum after pricking is of importance.

1973 Times 24 Oct. 26/6 The possible conflict of loyalty between a manager's duty to his employer and the prickings of his conscience.

1989 P. Rance French Cheese Bk. vii. 211 Next comes pricking of the cheese to allow..aeration needed inside for the mould to develop.

2004 West Australian (Nexis) 20 Nov. 61 This will be a big step forward, particularly for children who do not like..getting numb fingers from all the pricking.

b. The sensation of, or as of, being pricked or wounded; smarting, tingling; an instance of this. pricking of (also in) one's thumbs n. an intuitive feeling or hunch; a premonition or foreboding (used in various constructions with allusion to quot. a1616).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pricking or tingling

prickinga1398

tinglinga1450

punction1596

dindling1597

compunction1604

punto1617

prickling1656

sharpness1694

puncture1709

puncturation1733

pins and needles1813

tingle1832

pringling1890

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of

boding1297

pricking of (also in) one's thumbsa1398

sense1549

presagition?c1550

forefeeling1551

aboding1579

bode1587

foresignification1592

presage1597

prevention1601

bodement1642

presentiment1663

forebodea1680

forebodement1755

omening1796

bodeword1832

forefeel1839

hunch1904

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 256 Þe dronkelewe mannes face is pale..and he..feeleþ sore prikkynge [a1450 Bodl. picchinge] and ache in his heued.

a1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS 101 For þe schottes & þe prikkynges in sydes.

a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 32^v (MED) Bot þe gret obtolmya is wen the eye warkyth and þe whit is rede and þer is het, pryckyng, and terys.

1588 J. Read tr. in F. Arcaeus Compend. Method ii. vii. f. 53 Prickings of the sinewes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 61 By the pricking of my Thumbes, Something wicked this way comes.

1661 H. More Let. 14 Apr. in Conway Lett. (1992) iv. 184 A ten days cold..hath much quench'd..my spiritts, after the paine and prickings of my spleen.

1723 J. Markland Cythereia 18 I have such Pain and Prickings in my Side.

1779 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic II. 101 The heat of the body..produces profuse sweating, preceded..with a sense of pricking, as of pin points in the skin.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 687 Producing terrible pricking and itching.

1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter i. 43 ‘I had a feeling I was going to meet you to-day.’ ‘By the pricking of your thumbs, I presume?’

1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vi. 92 There should have been a pricking in our thumbs the morning we went to see the fossils, but we had no warning at all.

1980 W. Percy Second Coming i. v. 171 A violent pricking went up his back and into his hairline.

2004 S. Blackburn Lust iii. 33 The tingling and prickings of desire.

2. The action of spurring or goading onward; instigation, incitement, provocation; an instance of this. Now rare except as merged with 1a.

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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation

puttingOE

sleatinga1122

eggingc1200

pricking?c1225

enticement1303

movinga1382

eggmentc1386

stirring1399

instinct1412

instigationc1422

motiona1425

provocationa1425

coyingc1440

ertingc1440

tollingc1440

artation1441

incitation1477

instinction1490

inhortationc1503

stimulation1526

abetment1533

onsetting1541

provokement?1545

incitament1579

stirring?c1580

irritation1589

incitement1594

spurring1611

to give foment to1613

fomenting1615

prompturea1616

proritation1615

urgea1618

exstimulation1626

fomentation1633

instinctment1661

spurning1672

impulsing1885

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 173 Seinte Pawel hefde..flesches pricunge.

a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) l. 16 (MED) Fleschliche þohtes..leadeð þe & drahen wið hare pricunges of fleschliche fulðen to licomliche lustes.

?c1310 (?OE) Royal Charter: Æðelstan to Milton Abbey (Sawyer 391) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 44 Ich Aþelstan.., gelad by þe pricingge of ðe Haly Goste, grantye and confirmye [etc.].

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 795 (MED) The wilde oxe..yf he sitte as lame, No fier, no strok, no prickyng come hym to.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 205 (MED) Ofte Prayer quynchyth the Pryckynges of vices.

1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding 41 I did..find in my mind a secret pricking forward thereto.

a1785 J. H. Stevenson Wks. (1795) III. 275 All the devil can do with his pricking and spurring Is to set you a longing and set you a stirring.

1882 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 2/1 In former times there was a custom called pricking—a sailor got behind a boy and forced him up by digging into him with a sharp marlingspike.

†3. Spurring; galloping; riding. Obsolete.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs

prickingc1330

spurringa1591

c1330 Pennyworth of Wit (Auch.) 311 in Englische Studien (1884) 7 116/2 (MED) His leman out at a windowe biheld & seiȝe him com ouer þe feld, & bi þe prikeing sche him knewe.

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2599 The heraudes lefte hir prikyng [v.r. prikkynges] vp and doun.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 191 Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Prykynge, of hors, cursitacio.

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 93^v (MED) Ridynge & prykynge þat longeþ to men of armes profiteþ & encreseþ more by vsage and exercise and by good & noble horsynge þan by eny oþer rules þat we mowe make þerof.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 89 In prikkyng contrar ther enemes.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxix^v Whan a benefice or prebende is fallen..what busie suite, what gadding and prickyng vp and downe.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 405/14 Thay..had the Scottis men in plunging be thair pricking and skirmisching.

1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish-ton-wish I. x. 148 He worried, by dint of hard pricking, the miserable hack..through the forest.

†4. The footprint or track of a hare or (rarely) some other animal; = prick n. 1c. Hence: the tracking of a hare by its footprints (in early use also pricking forth). Obsolete.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something > of a person or animal > of a rabbit or hare

prickinga1425

footstallc1475

fostal?c1475

prick1598

fare?1610

a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) 112 He shulde..nought rechate, till..he fynde her poyntynge, or pryckynge.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lx. 169 If he can finde the footing of the Hare (which we call pricking).

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiii. 696 By these traces or footsteps, he shall by little and little picke out which way she is gone, and this amongst hunts-men is called the pricking forth of the hare.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 281 The prints and prickings of sundry sorts of beasts, might easily be discerned.

1758 T. Fairfax Compl. Sportsman 97 When the Huntsman finds his hounds at a default..let him hunt on..looking narrowly on the ground as he goes, to see to find the footing or pricking of the hare.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 262 These tracks were sometimes lost..; but by careful pricking, they were hit upon again.

1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange ii. 48 At length even pricking failed.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 65 Prickin's, the footsteps of a hare.

†5. Fastening with a pin, etc.; dressing up, adornment; = prinking n. at prink v.² Derivatives. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]

tiffing?c1225

hightinga1387

prickinga1425

perching?1578

pranking1580

primpingc1590

sprunkinga1685

prinking1687

smugging1736

titivation1805

beautifying1836

prink1869

dolling1906

makeover1966

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 28 Fixura, fastenyng or prickynge.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 583/31 (MED) Fixura, anglice, prykkynge or festenynge.

a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 22 With-in thi herte thynkynge, boostynge, and prikkynge and preysynge of thi silfe.

1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 116^v Women..haue muche pryckynge..when they put on their cap.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 45 They haue spent a good part of the day in..pricking and pinning.

a. Marking or writing by means of pricks, dots, etc.; a mark or pattern so made; spec. (a) the writing down of music by means of pricks (prick v. 20a) (now chiefly historical); †(b) the selection or appointment of a sheriff (see prick v. 21) (rare); (c) figured ornamentation or embroidery (now historical except as in sense 6b).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing

broidery1382

browdingc1386

broideringa1450

broudur1470

bruserya1522

prickinga1527

orphany?1553

embroidery?1577

brede1644

braiding1831

stitch-work1848

Madras work1865

Madeira lace1882

Madeira work1882

paraffle1911

a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 477 A song myssowndithe yf the prickynge be not right.

1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 13 No manne vnder the degree of a barons soune..shall weare any maner embrodery, prickyng or printing with golde, siluer, or other sylke.

1621 in E. F. Rimbault Old Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (1872) 10 For pricking of songes and for a new sett of bookes for the Chappell.

1699 H. Wanley Let. 25 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 273 The reducing of any Tune in that book to our way of pricking on five lines.

a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 464 It was now the usual time of the year for the Kings pricking of sheriffs.

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 116 By pricking over the book, is meant an examining every article of the Journal against the Ledger.

1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 228/2 Pricking, delicate needle-point engraving used principally for decorating silver with armorials and inscriptions in 16th to 17th cent.

1993 Burlington Mag. Sept. 612/1 Both these scholars describe the pricking [on a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford]..as ‘mysterious’.

b. Embroidery and Lacemaking. The transferring of a design by means of pricks from a pattern to an underlying card or other surface, which is then used as a guide or template; (now usually) the pattern copied or guide produced in this way.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > other equipment

thread-sister1721

pricking1851

sister1892

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > processes involved in

running1817

pricking1851

tressing1862

shadow-stitch1882

1851 Times 4 Mar. 9/1 (advt.) Patterns of all kinds of Embroidery, Braiding, &c., pricking machine, and receipt for reproducing the design on any material.

c1890 tr. T. de Dillmont Encycl. Needlework 480 The pricking of the pattern beforehand is particularly important in the case of the common torchon lace, where the real beauty of the design consists in its regularity.

1913 Times 27 June 39/6 The adaptation of faulty patterns from wallpapers and tablecloths has been done away with and old prickings have been unearthed and reintroduced.

1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-making iv. 26 Straight lace, all the threads being hung on the lace pillow at the top of a straight pricking.

2002 Library Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Aug. 92 It includes..patterns for..lace projects with step-by-step instructions, prickings, diagrams, and photographs of the finished pieces.

c. Palaeography. The piercing of a series of holes on a page or leaf to assist with the ruling of lines; a set of such holes (usually in plural).

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society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > lines ruled for writing on > series of holes for ruling, piercing of such

pricking1908

1908 E. Johnston Writing & Illuminating (ed. 2) vi. 110 The writing line dots are pricked through all the sheets by means of a fine awl or needle... See also methods of ruling without pricking.

1944 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 75 71 Palaeographers in search of objective criteria for dating and placing manuscripts will do well to consider prickings.

1971 T. A. M. Bishop Eng. Caroline Minuscule p. xii In English MSS. written after c. 900 the prickings for horizontal ruling are found only in outer lateral margins.

1990 Speculum 65 652 He discusses..the folding of sheets to make gatherings, the pricking and ruling of the writing area, the writing of the text [etc.].

†7. The souring or acidification of wine, beer, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. prick v. 6. Obsolete.

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1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 141 The length of the voyage makes them [sc. wines] subject to pricking.

1682 Art & Myst. of Vintners 58 Take a handful of Rosemary at the Bung-hole of your Vessel..and let it hang in the Wine till it be without pricking.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 432 To prevent Wine from pricking.

Compounds

C1.

† pricking-hat n. Obsolete a riding hat.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > for specific purpose

pricking-hat1402

matinee hat1869

tinfoil hat1884

safari hat1935

1402 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/280/25) m. 3 Decem paria de vambraces sex prikynghattes quinque palettes.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2890 Galiot non armys bur that day, Nor as o knycht he wald hyme-self aray, But as o seruand in o harbariowne, O prekyne hat [Fr. capel de fer] and ek o gret trownsciown..and one o cursour set.

c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. liv Either a pricknighate [read prickinghate] or a sallett upon their heads.

pricking iron n. chiefly Saddlery an implement for making a regular series of holes or pricks in marking out a pattern for stitching.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler's equipment

stake nail1688

welt1871

stob1872

chamfering-toola1877

pricking iron1904

1904 P. N. Hasluck Harness Making ii. i. 18 Fig. 32 shows a tool used in stamping the lines preparatory to stitching. These tools vary in width from three teeth, which are used only for round points and scalloped work, to twenty-four teeth for straight lines... [Caption] Fig. 32.—Pricking-iron.

1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xvi. 206 A pricking iron—a chisel-shaped implement with points or teeth at regular intervals on the blade—was first used to mark out the pattern and to ensure that the stitches were uniformly placed.

1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 194 (caption) With a cork block as a base, a pricking iron is used to create evenly spaced holes.

† pricking-knife n. Obsolete rare a tool used by carpenters for pricking or piercing.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives

bollock knifec1400

paring knife1415

spudc1440

pricking-knifec1500

shaving-knife1530–1

by-knifec1570

heading knife1574

stock knife1582

drawing knife1583

bung-knife1592

weeding knife1598

drawing knife1610

heading knife1615

draw knife1679

dressing knife1683

redishing knife1688

mocotaugan1716

skinning knife1767

paper knife1789

draw shave1824

leaf-cutter1828

piece-knife1833

nut-pick1851

relic knife1854

butch1859

straw-knife1862

sportsman's companion1863

ulu1864

skinner1872

hacker1875

over-shave1875

stripping-knife1875

Stanley knife1878

flat-back1888

gauge-knife1888

tine-knife1888

plough1899

band-knife1926

X-Acto1943

shank1953

box cutter1955

ratchet knife1966

ratchet1975

c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 457 (MED) Than bespake the prykyng-knyfe.

† pricking-note n. Obsolete a note of goods for shipment, on which a customs officer pricked each item as it was delivered on board, and on which the captain gave a receipt for the goods.

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society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > customs documents

cocket1425

transire1599

bill of sight1662

bill of store1670

sufferance1670

passport1714

pricking-note1846

transit pass1862

certificate of origin1886

dandy-note-

1846 Times 14 May 8/3 Defrauding the revenue by putting his signature, as captain of the Rosalind, to the ‘pricking note’, a document which thereby admitted that the brandy..had been..stowed away on board that vessel.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pricking-note, a form of custom-house order..delivered by a shipper of goods to the searcher.

1881 Times 31 Aug. 8/3 The warrant and addenda (or the pricking note) in the case of exportation of wet or dry goods can be sent to the proprietor of the warehouse.

† pricking-pallet n. Obsolete a headpiece worn when riding (see pallet n.¹ 1).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > leather helmet

palletc1330

pricking-pallet1403

1403 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 44 (MED) [Divers arms, swords,] prykyngpaletes.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 88 (MED) Some wil haue..A prikyng palet, of plate þe cower.

† pricking-pole n. Obsolete a pole with an iron point for propelling a boat.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > pole

spritOE

shaltree1307

quant1440

poy1486

boat pole1698

setting-pole1763

stower1777

punting polea1798

setter1816

punt pole1831

kent1844

punt stick1846

pricking-pole1892

quant-pole1898

1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens xv. 153 Carry my pricking-pole up.

pricking-wheel n. = prick wheel n. at prick n. Compounds 2.

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1909 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 15 Apr. Harness..can be made to look like new by running a harness maker's pricking wheel over the stitching.

1988 Courier-Mail (Nexis) 10 Mar. The use of paint, stencils, pinking shears and pricking wheel helped textural and visual success.

2002 Church Times 5 July 17/3 The pattern is pricked out, using a knitting-needle, penknife, or tailor's pricking-wheel.

C2. With following adverb; cf. pricking-up n.

pricking off n. Horticulture = pricking out n.

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1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 386/2 Pricking off.—This is a term used by gardeners for the process of transplanting small seedlings as soon as they are fit to handle.

1916 Times 26 Aug. 9/6 The seeds are sown in the usual way in shallow drills drawn in the soil... By sowing thinly much sturdier plants are obtained for pricking off.

1936 Amer. Home Feb. 40/1 Pricking Off means transplanting seedling from seed bed to flats, usually spacing the plants 1'' apart.

pricking out n. Horticulture the process or practice of separating and transplanting seedlings from where they were sown to a larger container or outdoor bed; cf. prick v. 17.

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1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xiv. 184 The pricking out the young plants is to done when they are three or four days old.

1935 A. G. L. Hellyer Pract. Gardening v. 47 Pricking out should be done as soon as it becomes necessary.

1976 Abingdon Herald 9 Dec. 5/2 A heating cable will enable you to carry on plants after pricking out.

2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 67/3 In a shaded spot seedlings will be ready for pricking out in a month.

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

prickingadj.

Brit.

/ˈprɪkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈprɪkɪŋ/

Forms: see prick v. and -ing suffix²; also Middle English prekiinde, Middle English prikiende, Middle English prikiinde, Middle English prikyinde.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < prick v. + -ing suffix². With sense 5 compare earlier prick adj., pricked adj.¹ 3.

1. That causes a prick or puncture; sharp, piercing, prickly. Also in figurative contexts.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [adjective] > piercing > pricking

pricking?c1225

punctorious1675

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 107 Nest is eart utewið of prikinde [a1250 Nero prikiinde; a1250 Titus prikiende; a1500 Royal prikyng] þornes.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 (MED) Þe þorn-hog..ys al ywryȝe myd prikyinde [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues scharp] eles.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 71 (MED) If sich maner fracture war with squirlez prickyng, þai shal be planed with a lenticuler & oþer instrumentez.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxviii. 24 She shal no more be a prickinge thorne, & an hurtinge brere vnto the house of Israel.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 66 With their pricking stinges they [sc. bees] greeuously wound and torment.

1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 30 By stinging Nettles, pricking Teasels Raysing blisters like the measels.

1706 J. Hussey Glory Christ Unveil'd ii. 38 Roses are observed to grow upon pricking Bushes; so Christ is observed to grow upon a pricking Bush.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 346 Juncus acutus,..Pricking large Sea-rush. Sand Hills on the sea coast of Merionethshire.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 173 Wi' his prickin' gude pyk-staff Made them rebound and wintle aff.

1901 L. Binyon Bacchanal of Alexander in Odes 17 That furnace, which for sixty days they pierced, Wrapt in a hot slow cloud of pricking grains [sc. sand].

2003 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 9 May The High Court Bar chief said that..the extra constitutional National Security Council is another pricking thorn in the body of democracy.

2. Designating or producing a sensation of being pricked; causing a sharp sudden pain; having a painful or wounding effect on the body or (figurative) the emotions, mind, etc.; piercing; smarting, stinging, prickling.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > pricking or tingling

pricking1483

tingling1543

thorny-pricking1594

dindling1597

punctory1661

punctious1688

prickly1749

tingly1862

pringling1896

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 107 Swa schal ancre þolien utewið hard onhire flesch & prikiende pinen.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 148 Þe poudres efterward and prekiinde [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues fretynge poudres and scharpe] of harde wyþniminge.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 83^v In suche aposteme, þe yȝe swellith & wepiþ & is rede & feliþ ache & prickynge hete.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/2 Kepyng hymself ryght curyously from the pryckyng sawtes and watche of the world the flesshe and the deuyll.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. E j Mylke..is good agaynst prickynge humours in the entrayles.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 714 King Edward..was releeued of the most part, of his pricking feare, and inwarde suspicion.

1629 T. Browne in Darcie Ann. Q. Eliz. ii. 371 Marshall Byrone, who with pricking words wounded the Maiesty of the King, was now beheaded.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 140 There is no pricking cold.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Cancer Primitive Cancer, is that which comes of it self, and appears at first about the bigness of a Pea or Bean, causing an inward continual and pricking Pain.

1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. iii. iv. 511 Attended with pricking pains in the right side.

a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) vi. 122 They were nicking at each other—little pricking strokes like men do sometimes.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xi. 355/2 The short-latency pricking pain evoked by a noxious stimulus is followed by a second long-latency pain of a burning and less bearable quality.

2005 Africa News (Nexis) 16 Nov. Sitting in front of my host's stately office desk for a quarter of an hour, my escalating iodine levels triggering pricking pins and needles through my bums.

†3. That presses forward; keen, eager. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective]

needfulOE

anguishous?c1225

eager?a1300

throc1330

fierce1377

desirousc1386

affectuousa1400

yeverousa1400

inwardc1402

earnestful?1406

rathe?c1450

zealing1459

increc1480

affectual1483

zealous1526

affectioneda1533

jealous1535

heartyc1540

affectivec1550

earnest1563

pricking1575

forward1587

affectionate1598

passiveless1602

zealful1602

full-hearteda1616

wholehearted1644

intense1645

high1649

covetous1652

thorough-hearted1656

keen as mustard1659

fell1667

fervent1673

smirk1674

zealed1679

prest1697

strenuous1713

enthusiastic1741

enthusiastical1755

whole-souled1821

con amore1828

lyrical1875

mustard1919

gung ho1942

1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Aij^v The perte and pricking prime of youth, ought chastisment to haue.

†4. Goading, stimulating. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating

stirring1421

movingc1443

provokingc1443

incitative1490

urgent1559

propulsory1585

pricking1592

pulsive1602

incentive1603

incitatory1610

urging1612

animalizing1617

impellent1620

irritant1636

instigative1644

propulsive1648

promptive1653

parastatic1656

exstimulatory1657

impulsory1659

appelling1666

irritative1686

instigating1702

spurring1702

stimulatinga1732

stimulatory1758

impulsive1788

stimulant1803

stimulative1836

exertivea1856

inciting1855

incitant1886

incitive1888

on-driving1927

incitory1941

1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. H4 The Hortatorie and Dehortatorie are a little more vehement, stirring and pricking then the others.

5. Of ears: pricked, pointed, erect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [adjective] > types of ear

lavea1400

sousing1567

pricking1614

erected1676

erect1735

flapped1841

cauliflowered1947

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. i. 3 A small thin eare, short and pricking.

1616 B. Jonson Oberon 119 in Wks. I Stick our pricking eares With the pearle that Tethys weares.

1788 R. Cumberland Observer IV. 294 Critic curs with pricking ears Bark at each Bard as he appears.

1866 T. C. Irwin Poems 167 Their pricking ears are listening to the galloping of horses.

1921 ‘M. Brand’ Seventh Man v. 40 As he pulled her back to a swinging canter her head went high, with pricking ears.

2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 May e01 Jockey Elliott..noticed those pricking ears at the finish.

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

单词	pricking
释义	prickingn. Brit. /ˈprɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprɪkɪŋ/ Forms: see prick v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English prekyinge, Middle English pricknig (in a late copy, transmission error), Middle English pricknyge (transmission error), Middle English pricunge. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < prick v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Old Saxon precunga action of pressing a burning iron on a surface.For a possible earlier example of the word in sense 2 compare the following example:a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 145 Þer scal beon..smellinge mid swetnesse and dunge [perh. read ðenunge] wið-uten prikunge.However, the precise interpretation of prikunge depends upon the explanation of the difficult word dunge earlier in the sentence: Morris's tentative emendation to ðenunge ‘service’ has not been universally accepted (although Middle Eng. Dict. does so, and (s.v. priking(e ger.) glosses prikunge as ‘urging to action’). 1. a. The action or process of piercing, puncturing, or wounding with, or as with, a pointed instrument or weapon. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative: the infliction of mental or emotional pain, as grief, distress, sorrow, remorse, regret, etc. Also: an instance of this; a physical, metal, or emotional wounding. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > transplanting prickingOE transplantation1601 transplanting1608 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vi. 53 Hi ða sawla toterað mid pricungum mislicra geðohta. c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. F) l. 31 Ic was mid þine prickunge ipin[ed ful] sore. a1300 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 3 (MED) Of þe þornes prikung, min hiued urnth a blode. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xix. 28 Opon þe dede ȝe sholen not kytte ȝoure flesch, ne eny..prikkynges ȝe sholyn make to ȝow. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 118 (MED) Þei bigan for to arise wiþ dreede fro peyne and fro manyefoold prickynges of tribulaciouns. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157 Þai bene put vpon bityngez & prickyngez [?c1425 Paris styngynges] & venemous pustulez þat þe venom be drawe out fro þam. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPiii^v Without drede or feare, scrupull or prickyng of conscience. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2183 My payne, with prickyng in hert. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 612 By thornes and prickings of bushes. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 328 To the pricking and astonishing of thy heart. 1704 Dict. Rusticum Cloyed, or Accloy'd, is no other, than the pricking of an Horse with a Nail in the Shooing. 1743 Thoughts in Sickness 5 Too long I've roar'd in uncorrected Smart, Without the Prickings of a contrite Heart! 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 205 Those elected to this function Ne'er feel the prickings of compunction. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 768 The exudation of sebum after pricking is of importance. 1973 Times 24 Oct. 26/6 The possible conflict of loyalty between a manager's duty to his employer and the prickings of his conscience. 1989 P. Rance French Cheese Bk. vii. 211 Next comes pricking of the cheese to allow..aeration needed inside for the mould to develop. 2004 West Australian (Nexis) 20 Nov. 61 This will be a big step forward, particularly for children who do not like..getting numb fingers from all the pricking. b. The sensation of, or as of, being pricked or wounded; smarting, tingling; an instance of this. pricking of (also in) one's thumbs n. an intuitive feeling or hunch; a premonition or foreboding (used in various constructions with allusion to quot. a1616). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pricking or tingling prickinga1398 tinglinga1450 punction1596 dindling1597 compunction1604 punto1617 prickling1656 sharpness1694 puncture1709 puncturation1733 pins and needles1813 tingle1832 pringling1890 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of boding1297 pricking of (also in) one's thumbsa1398 sense1549 presagition?c1550 forefeeling1551 aboding1579 bode1587 foresignification1592 presage1597 prevention1601 bodement1642 presentiment1663 forebodea1680 forebodement1755 omening1796 bodeword1832 forefeel1839 hunch1904 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 256 Þe dronkelewe mannes face is pale..and he..feeleþ sore prikkynge [a1450 Bodl. picchinge] and ache in his heued. a1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS 101 For þe schottes & þe prikkynges in sydes. a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 32^v (MED) Bot þe gret obtolmya is wen the eye warkyth and þe whit is rede and þer is het, pryckyng, and terys. 1588 J. Read tr. in F. Arcaeus Compend. Method ii. vii. f. 53 Prickings of the sinewes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 61 By the pricking of my Thumbes, Something wicked this way comes. View more context for this quotation 1661 H. More Let. 14 Apr. in Conway Lett. (1992) iv. 184 A ten days cold..hath much quench'd..my spiritts, after the paine and prickings of my spleen. 1723 J. Markland Cythereia 18 I have such Pain and Prickings in my Side. 1779 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic II. 101 The heat of the body..produces profuse sweating, preceded..with a sense of pricking, as of pin points in the skin. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 687 Producing terrible pricking and itching. 1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter i. 43 ‘I had a feeling I was going to meet you to-day.’ ‘By the pricking of your thumbs, I presume?’ 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vi. 92 There should have been a pricking in our thumbs the morning we went to see the fossils, but we had no warning at all. 1980 W. Percy Second Coming i. v. 171 A violent pricking went up his back and into his hairline. 2004 S. Blackburn Lust iii. 33 The tingling and prickings of desire. 2. The action of spurring or goading onward; instigation, incitement, provocation; an instance of this. Now rare except as merged with 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation puttingOE sleatinga1122 eggingc1200 pricking?c1225 enticement1303 movinga1382 eggmentc1386 stirring1399 instinct1412 instigationc1422 motiona1425 provocationa1425 coyingc1440 ertingc1440 tollingc1440 artation1441 incitation1477 instinction1490 inhortationc1503 stimulation1526 abetment1533 onsetting1541 provokement?1545 incitament1579 stirring?c1580 irritation1589 incitement1594 spurring1611 to give foment to1613 fomenting1615 prompturea1616 proritation1615 urgea1618 exstimulation1626 fomentation1633 instinctment1661 spurning1672 impulsing1885 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 173 Seinte Pawel hefde..flesches pricunge. a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) l. 16 (MED) Fleschliche þohtes..leadeð þe & drahen wið hare pricunges of fleschliche fulðen to licomliche lustes. ?c1310 (?OE) Royal Charter: Æðelstan to Milton Abbey (Sawyer 391) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 44 Ich Aþelstan.., gelad by þe pricingge of ðe Haly Goste, grantye and confirmye [etc.]. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 795 (MED) The wilde oxe..yf he sitte as lame, No fier, no strok, no prickyng come hym to. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 205 (MED) Ofte Prayer quynchyth the Pryckynges of vices. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding 41 I did..find in my mind a secret pricking forward thereto. a1785 J. H. Stevenson Wks. (1795) III. 275 All the devil can do with his pricking and spurring Is to set you a longing and set you a stirring. 1882 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 2/1 In former times there was a custom called pricking—a sailor got behind a boy and forced him up by digging into him with a sharp marlingspike. †3. Spurring; galloping; riding. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs prickingc1330 spurringa1591 c1330 Pennyworth of Wit (Auch.) 311 in Englische Studien (1884) 7 116/2 (MED) His leman out at a windowe biheld & seiȝe him com ouer þe feld, & bi þe prikeing sche him knewe. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2599 The heraudes lefte hir prikyng [v.r. prikkynges] vp and doun. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 191 Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Prykynge, of hors, cursitacio. a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 93^v (MED) Ridynge & prykynge þat longeþ to men of armes profiteþ & encreseþ more by vsage and exercise and by good & noble horsynge þan by eny oþer rules þat we mowe make þerof. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 89 In prikkyng contrar ther enemes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxix^v Whan a benefice or prebende is fallen..what busie suite, what gadding and prickyng vp and downe. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 405/14 Thay..had the Scottis men in plunging be thair pricking and skirmisching. 1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish-ton-wish I. x. 148 He worried, by dint of hard pricking, the miserable hack..through the forest. †4. The footprint or track of a hare or (rarely) some other animal; = prick n. 1c. Hence: the tracking of a hare by its footprints (in early use also pricking forth). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something > of a person or animal > of a rabbit or hare prickinga1425 footstallc1475 fostal?c1475 prick1598 fare?1610 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) 112 He shulde..nought rechate, till..he fynde her poyntynge, or pryckynge. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lx. 169 If he can finde the footing of the Hare (which we call pricking). 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiii. 696 By these traces or footsteps, he shall by little and little picke out which way she is gone, and this amongst hunts-men is called the pricking forth of the hare. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 281 The prints and prickings of sundry sorts of beasts, might easily be discerned. 1758 T. Fairfax Compl. Sportsman 97 When the Huntsman finds his hounds at a default..let him hunt on..looking narrowly on the ground as he goes, to see to find the footing or pricking of the hare. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 262 These tracks were sometimes lost..; but by careful pricking, they were hit upon again. 1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange ii. 48 At length even pricking failed. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 65 Prickin's, the footsteps of a hare. †5. Fastening with a pin, etc.; dressing up, adornment; = prinking n. at prink v.² Derivatives. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] tiffing?c1225 hightinga1387 prickinga1425 perching?1578 pranking1580 primpingc1590 sprunkinga1685 prinking1687 smugging1736 titivation1805 beautifying1836 prink1869 dolling1906 makeover1966 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 28 Fixura, fastenyng or prickynge. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 583/31 (MED) Fixura, anglice, prykkynge or festenynge. a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 22 With-in thi herte thynkynge, boostynge, and prikkynge and preysynge of thi silfe. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 116^v Women..haue muche pryckynge..when they put on their cap. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 45 They haue spent a good part of the day in..pricking and pinning. 6. a. Marking or writing by means of pricks, dots, etc.; a mark or pattern so made; spec. (a) the writing down of music by means of pricks (prick v. 20a) (now chiefly historical); †(b) the selection or appointment of a sheriff (see prick v. 21) (rare); (c) figured ornamentation or embroidery (now historical except as in sense 6b). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing broidery1382 browdingc1386 broideringa1450 broudur1470 bruserya1522 prickinga1527 orphany?1553 embroidery?1577 brede1644 braiding1831 stitch-work1848 Madras work1865 Madeira lace1882 Madeira work1882 paraffle1911 a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 477 A song myssowndithe yf the prickynge be not right. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 13 No manne vnder the degree of a barons soune..shall weare any maner embrodery, prickyng or printing with golde, siluer, or other sylke. 1621 in E. F. Rimbault Old Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (1872) 10 For pricking of songes and for a new sett of bookes for the Chappell. 1699 H. Wanley Let. 25 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 273 The reducing of any Tune in that book to our way of pricking on five lines. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 464 It was now the usual time of the year for the Kings pricking of sheriffs. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 116 By pricking over the book, is meant an examining every article of the Journal against the Ledger. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 228/2 Pricking, delicate needle-point engraving used principally for decorating silver with armorials and inscriptions in 16th to 17th cent. 1993 Burlington Mag. Sept. 612/1 Both these scholars describe the pricking [on a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford]..as ‘mysterious’. b. Embroidery and Lacemaking. The transferring of a design by means of pricks from a pattern to an underlying card or other surface, which is then used as a guide or template; (now usually) the pattern copied or guide produced in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > other equipment thread-sister1721 pricking1851 sister1892 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > processes involved in running1817 pricking1851 tressing1862 shadow-stitch1882 1851 Times 4 Mar. 9/1 (advt.) Patterns of all kinds of Embroidery, Braiding, &c., pricking machine, and receipt for reproducing the design on any material. c1890 tr. T. de Dillmont Encycl. Needlework 480 The pricking of the pattern beforehand is particularly important in the case of the common torchon lace, where the real beauty of the design consists in its regularity. 1913 Times 27 June 39/6 The adaptation of faulty patterns from wallpapers and tablecloths has been done away with and old prickings have been unearthed and reintroduced. 1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-making iv. 26 Straight lace, all the threads being hung on the lace pillow at the top of a straight pricking. 2002 Library Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Aug. 92 It includes..patterns for..lace projects with step-by-step instructions, prickings, diagrams, and photographs of the finished pieces. c. Palaeography. The piercing of a series of holes on a page or leaf to assist with the ruling of lines; a set of such holes (usually in plural). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > lines ruled for writing on > series of holes for ruling, piercing of such pricking1908 1908 E. Johnston Writing & Illuminating (ed. 2) vi. 110 The writing line dots are pricked through all the sheets by means of a fine awl or needle... See also methods of ruling without pricking. 1944 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 75 71 Palaeographers in search of objective criteria for dating and placing manuscripts will do well to consider prickings. 1971 T. A. M. Bishop Eng. Caroline Minuscule p. xii In English MSS. written after c. 900 the prickings for horizontal ruling are found only in outer lateral margins. 1990 Speculum 65 652 He discusses..the folding of sheets to make gatherings, the pricking and ruling of the writing area, the writing of the text [etc.]. †7. The souring or acidification of wine, beer, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. prick v. 6. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 141 The length of the voyage makes them [sc. wines] subject to pricking. 1682 Art & Myst. of Vintners 58 Take a handful of Rosemary at the Bung-hole of your Vessel..and let it hang in the Wine till it be without pricking. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 432 To prevent Wine from pricking. Compounds C1. † pricking-hat n. Obsolete a riding hat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > for specific purpose pricking-hat1402 matinee hat1869 tinfoil hat1884 safari hat1935 1402 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/280/25) m. 3 Decem paria de vambraces sex prikynghattes quinque palettes. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2890 Galiot non armys bur that day, Nor as o knycht he wald hyme-self aray, But as o seruand in o harbariowne, O prekyne hat [Fr. capel de fer] and ek o gret trownsciown..and one o cursour set. c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. liv Either a pricknighate [read prickinghate] or a sallett upon their heads. pricking iron n. chiefly Saddlery an implement for making a regular series of holes or pricks in marking out a pattern for stitching. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler's equipment stake nail1688 welt1871 stob1872 chamfering-toola1877 pricking iron1904 1904 P. N. Hasluck Harness Making ii. i. 18 Fig. 32 shows a tool used in stamping the lines preparatory to stitching. These tools vary in width from three teeth, which are used only for round points and scalloped work, to twenty-four teeth for straight lines... [Caption] Fig. 32.—Pricking-iron. 1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xvi. 206 A pricking iron—a chisel-shaped implement with points or teeth at regular intervals on the blade—was first used to mark out the pattern and to ensure that the stitches were uniformly placed. 1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 194 (caption) With a cork block as a base, a pricking iron is used to create evenly spaced holes. † pricking-knife n. Obsolete rare a tool used by carpenters for pricking or piercing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives bollock knifec1400 paring knife1415 spudc1440 pricking-knifec1500 shaving-knife1530–1 by-knifec1570 heading knife1574 stock knife1582 drawing knife1583 bung-knife1592 weeding knife1598 drawing knife1610 heading knife1615 draw knife1679 dressing knife1683 redishing knife1688 mocotaugan1716 skinning knife1767 paper knife1789 draw shave1824 leaf-cutter1828 piece-knife1833 nut-pick1851 relic knife1854 butch1859 straw-knife1862 sportsman's companion1863 ulu1864 skinner1872 hacker1875 over-shave1875 stripping-knife1875 Stanley knife1878 flat-back1888 gauge-knife1888 tine-knife1888 plough1899 band-knife1926 X-Acto1943 shank1953 box cutter1955 ratchet knife1966 ratchet1975 c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 457 (MED) Than bespake the prykyng-knyfe. † pricking-note n. Obsolete a note of goods for shipment, on which a customs officer pricked each item as it was delivered on board, and on which the captain gave a receipt for the goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > customs documents cocket1425 transire1599 bill of sight1662 bill of store1670 sufferance1670 passport1714 pricking-note1846 transit pass1862 certificate of origin1886 dandy-note- 1846 Times 14 May 8/3 Defrauding the revenue by putting his signature, as captain of the Rosalind, to the ‘pricking note’, a document which thereby admitted that the brandy..had been..stowed away on board that vessel. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pricking-note, a form of custom-house order..delivered by a shipper of goods to the searcher. 1881 Times 31 Aug. 8/3 The warrant and addenda (or the pricking note) in the case of exportation of wet or dry goods can be sent to the proprietor of the warehouse. † pricking-pallet n. Obsolete a headpiece worn when riding (see pallet n.¹ 1). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > leather helmet palletc1330 pricking-pallet1403 1403 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 44 (MED) [Divers arms, swords,] prykyngpaletes. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 88 (MED) Some wil haue..A prikyng palet, of plate þe cower. † pricking-pole n. Obsolete a pole with an iron point for propelling a boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > pole spritOE shaltree1307 quant1440 poy1486 boat pole1698 setting-pole1763 stower1777 punting polea1798 setter1816 punt pole1831 kent1844 punt stick1846 pricking-pole1892 quant-pole1898 1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens xv. 153 Carry my pricking-pole up. pricking-wheel n. = prick wheel n. at prick n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1909 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 15 Apr. Harness..can be made to look like new by running a harness maker's pricking wheel over the stitching. 1988 Courier-Mail (Nexis) 10 Mar. The use of paint, stencils, pinking shears and pricking wheel helped textural and visual success. 2002 Church Times 5 July 17/3 The pattern is pricked out, using a knitting-needle, penknife, or tailor's pricking-wheel. C2. With following adverb; cf. pricking-up n. pricking off n. Horticulture = pricking out n. ΚΠ 1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 386/2 Pricking off.—This is a term used by gardeners for the process of transplanting small seedlings as soon as they are fit to handle. 1916 Times 26 Aug. 9/6 The seeds are sown in the usual way in shallow drills drawn in the soil... By sowing thinly much sturdier plants are obtained for pricking off. 1936 Amer. Home Feb. 40/1 Pricking Off means transplanting seedling from seed bed to flats, usually spacing the plants 1'' apart. pricking out n. Horticulture the process or practice of separating and transplanting seedlings from where they were sown to a larger container or outdoor bed; cf. prick v. 17. ΚΠ 1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xiv. 184 The pricking out the young plants is to done when they are three or four days old. 1935 A. G. L. Hellyer Pract. Gardening v. 47 Pricking out should be done as soon as it becomes necessary. 1976 Abingdon Herald 9 Dec. 5/2 A heating cable will enable you to carry on plants after pricking out. 2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 67/3 In a shaded spot seedlings will be ready for pricking out in a month. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). prickingadj. Brit. /ˈprɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprɪkɪŋ/ Forms: see prick v. and -ing suffix²; also Middle English prekiinde, Middle English prikiende, Middle English prikiinde, Middle English prikyinde. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < prick v. + -ing suffix². With sense 5 compare earlier prick adj., pricked adj.¹ 3. 1. That causes a prick or puncture; sharp, piercing, prickly. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [adjective] > piercing > pricking pricking?c1225 punctorious1675 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 107 Nest is eart utewið of prikinde [a1250 Nero prikiinde; a1250 Titus prikiende; a1500 Royal prikyng] þornes. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 (MED) Þe þorn-hog..ys al ywryȝe myd prikyinde [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues scharp] eles. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 71 (MED) If sich maner fracture war with squirlez prickyng, þai shal be planed with a lenticuler & oþer instrumentez. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxviii. 24 She shal no more be a prickinge thorne, & an hurtinge brere vnto the house of Israel. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 66 With their pricking stinges they [sc. bees] greeuously wound and torment. 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 30 By stinging Nettles, pricking Teasels Raysing blisters like the measels. 1706 J. Hussey Glory Christ Unveil'd ii. 38 Roses are observed to grow upon pricking Bushes; so Christ is observed to grow upon a pricking Bush. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 346 Juncus acutus,..Pricking large Sea-rush. Sand Hills on the sea coast of Merionethshire. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 173 Wi' his prickin' gude pyk-staff Made them rebound and wintle aff. 1901 L. Binyon Bacchanal of Alexander in Odes 17 That furnace, which for sixty days they pierced, Wrapt in a hot slow cloud of pricking grains [sc. sand]. 2003 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 9 May The High Court Bar chief said that..the extra constitutional National Security Council is another pricking thorn in the body of democracy. 2. Designating or producing a sensation of being pricked; causing a sharp sudden pain; having a painful or wounding effect on the body or (figurative) the emotions, mind, etc.; piercing; smarting, stinging, prickling. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > pricking or tingling pricking1483 tingling1543 thorny-pricking1594 dindling1597 punctory1661 punctious1688 prickly1749 tingly1862 pringling1896 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 107 Swa schal ancre þolien utewið hard onhire flesch & prikiende pinen. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 148 Þe poudres efterward and prekiinde [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues fretynge poudres and scharpe] of harde wyþniminge. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 83^v In suche aposteme, þe yȝe swellith & wepiþ & is rede & feliþ ache & prickynge hete. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/2 Kepyng hymself ryght curyously from the pryckyng sawtes and watche of the world the flesshe and the deuyll. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. E j Mylke..is good agaynst prickynge humours in the entrayles. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 714 King Edward..was releeued of the most part, of his pricking feare, and inwarde suspicion. 1629 T. Browne in Darcie Ann. Q. Eliz. ii. 371 Marshall Byrone, who with pricking words wounded the Maiesty of the King, was now beheaded. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 140 There is no pricking cold. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Cancer Primitive Cancer, is that which comes of it self, and appears at first about the bigness of a Pea or Bean, causing an inward continual and pricking Pain. 1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. iii. iv. 511 Attended with pricking pains in the right side. a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) vi. 122 They were nicking at each other—little pricking strokes like men do sometimes. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xi. 355/2 The short-latency pricking pain evoked by a noxious stimulus is followed by a second long-latency pain of a burning and less bearable quality. 2005 Africa News (Nexis) 16 Nov. Sitting in front of my host's stately office desk for a quarter of an hour, my escalating iodine levels triggering pricking pins and needles through my bums. †3. That presses forward; keen, eager. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective] needfulOE anguishous?c1225 eager?a1300 throc1330 fierce1377 desirousc1386 affectuousa1400 yeverousa1400 inwardc1402 earnestful?1406 rathe?c1450 zealing1459 increc1480 affectual1483 zealous1526 affectioneda1533 jealous1535 heartyc1540 affectivec1550 earnest1563 pricking1575 forward1587 affectionate1598 passiveless1602 zealful1602 full-hearteda1616 wholehearted1644 intense1645 high1649 covetous1652 thorough-hearted1656 keen as mustard1659 fell1667 fervent1673 smirk1674 zealed1679 prest1697 strenuous1713 enthusiastic1741 enthusiastical1755 whole-souled1821 con amore1828 lyrical1875 mustard1919 gung ho1942 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Aij^v The perte and pricking prime of youth, ought chastisment to haue. †4. Goading, stimulating. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating stirring1421 movingc1443 provokingc1443 incitative1490 urgent1559 propulsory1585 pricking1592 pulsive1602 incentive1603 incitatory1610 urging1612 animalizing1617 impellent1620 irritant1636 instigative1644 propulsive1648 promptive1653 parastatic1656 exstimulatory1657 impulsory1659 appelling1666 irritative1686 instigating1702 spurring1702 stimulatinga1732 stimulatory1758 impulsive1788 stimulant1803 stimulative1836 exertivea1856 inciting1855 incitant1886 incitive1888 on-driving1927 incitory1941 1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. H4 The Hortatorie and Dehortatorie are a little more vehement, stirring and pricking then the others. 5. Of ears: pricked, pointed, erect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [adjective] > types of ear lavea1400 sousing1567 pricking1614 erected1676 erect1735 flapped1841 cauliflowered1947 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. i. 3 A small thin eare, short and pricking. 1616 B. Jonson Oberon 119 in Wks. I Stick our pricking eares With the pearle that Tethys weares. 1788 R. Cumberland Observer IV. 294 Critic curs with pricking ears Bark at each Bard as he appears. 1866 T. C. Irwin Poems 167 Their pricking ears are listening to the galloping of horses. 1921 ‘M. Brand’ Seventh Man v. 40 As he pulled her back to a swinging canter her head went high, with pricking ears. 2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 May e01 Jockey Elliott..noticed those pricking ears at the finish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OEadj.?c1225
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