pricket
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English
Etymology
From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
Pronunciation
Noun
pricket (plural prickets)
- (obsolete) A candle.
- A spike for holding a single candle.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174:
- Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.
- A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
- 1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:
- he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?
References
- ^ “pricket, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
