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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪkə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Noun
pricker (plural prickers)
- One who pricks.
- A tool for pricking.
- 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
- The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that.
- A prickle or thorn.
- Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
- One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
- 1814 July 7, , Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- The prickers, who rode foremost, halted.
- A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.
- (nautical) A small marlinespike used in sailmaking.
Related terms
Translations
a tool for pricking
References
- ^ Edward H Knight (1877) “Pricker”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. Illustrated with upwards of Seven Thousand Engravings.">…], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton : The Riverside Press.">…], →OCLC.
- ^ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend