单词 | pricker |
释义 | pricker (once / 32651 pages) n WORD FAMILY pricker: prickers+/prick: pricked, pricker, pricking, pricks/pricking: prickings USAGE EXAMPLESIt would take several expeditions before I found it, perhaps because it was half-overgrown with pricker bush, weeds and small trees. New York Times(Jun 21, 2013) A pause, and then, the speaker's eyes on his hearer's face like two prickers: "Did yet tak' your waistcoat off?" Onions, Oliver, Mushroom Town(2012) The Master of the Pope’s Stables follow’d by two Prickers. P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von, The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron...(2012) 1n a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf Syn|Hypo|Hyper prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn glochid, glochidium a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) aculeus a stiff sharp-pointed plant process 2n an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws Syn|Hyper bradawl awl a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes |
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