pricket
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n.
- A small point or spike for holding a candle upright.
- A candlestick having such a spike.
- A buck in its second year, before the antlers branch.
[Middle English priket, diminutive of prik, prick, prick. See prick.]
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1. Metal spike on which to stick a candle, as on a hearse, with a rimmed plate fixed below it into which the wax could run.
2. Top of a spire.
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pricket
a) a small point or spike for holding a candle upright b) a candlestick having such a spike
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pricket
A male deer with his first set of horns at 2 years of age.
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- Functional Household Articles and Appliances - pricket: candlestick with protruding point on which candle is impaled
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