Pricket

The senior maid ordered everyone to go back to sleep and, to emphasise the point, snuffed all the candles, even the thick night one on its pricket. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The young males which our fallow deer do bring forth are commonly named according to their several ages: for the first year it is a fawn, the second a pricket, the third a sorel, the fourth a soare, the fifth a buck of the first head, not bearing the name of a buck till he be five years old: and from henceforth his age is commonly known by his head or horns. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

The whole service was gilt, and the bequest included also a pair of magnificent pricket candlesticks, each nearly 20 inches high, with rich stems and massive scrolled bases. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

I said the deer was not a haud credo; ’twas a pricket. ❋ Unknown (1914)

And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that ’twas a pricket that the princess killed. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The preyful princess pierc’d and prick’d a pretty pleasing pricket; ❋ Unknown (1914)

Or pricket, sore, or else sorel; the people fall a hooting. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? and, to humour the ignorant, I have call’d the deer the princess killed, a pricket. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Rood-lights were kept burning before the rood in medieval times, consisting either of a wick and oil in a cresset, or rood - bowl, or of a taper on a pricket in the centre of a mortar of brass, lattern, or copper. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

An altar-candlestick consists of five parts: the foot, the stem, the knob about the middle of the stem, the bowl to receive the drippings of wax, and the pricket, i.e. the sharp point that terminates the stem on which the candle is fixed. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

There was a pricket at the top upon which the candle was stuck, and so St. Paulinus speaks of the candlesticks "which carry painted candles on their protruding spikes" ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Why, there was a buck I had shot in Hogley Woods, a magnificent pricket, and do you know how she had it sent to table? ❋ Dorothy Scarborough (1906)

Among the varieties are the earliest form of pricket candlestick on which the candle was "stuck," the bell candlesticks, and the candlesticks which were fixed on brackets against the wall. ❋ Unknown (1900)

At that he closed her mouth again, and again he pricket her with his knife, cruelly. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"My black roots are all grown out, but the [hairdresser] [can't see me] until next week. I guess I'll have to look like a pricket until then." "You kids stop running down the street with [no shoes] on. You look like a couple of prickets!" "I don't care if Britney Spears has millions of dollars...she still acts like a pricket." ❋ WPT (2008)