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单词 pricket
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pricket

[ prik-it ]
/ ˈprɪk ɪt /
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noun

a sharp metal point on which to stick a candle.
a candlestick with one or more such points.
a buck in his second year.

Origin of pricket

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at prick, -et

Words nearby pricket

pricey, Prichard, prick, prick-eared, pricker, pricket, pricking, prickle, prickleback, prickle cell, prickle cell layer
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Example sentences from the Web for pricket

  • But the Pricket was so much excited to hear of other Deer that he entreated his mother to go where the Partridge had told them.

    The Story of a Red Deer|J. W. Fortescue
  • And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592|Arthur Acheson

British Dictionary definitions for pricket

pricket
/ (ˈprɪkɪt) /

noun

a male deer in the second year of life having unbranched antlers
a sharp metal spike on which to stick a candle
a candlestick having such a spike

Word Origin for pricket

C14 priket, from prik prick
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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