Meaning of pricket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A candle.
   obsolete
2. A spike for holding a single candle.
3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.

Equivalents

Examples

“Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.”

“Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter”

“he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?”

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