pricket
Example Sentences
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The appendage in question was named a "pricket bat", and it was used to burst balloons.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013
The old foresters had different names for a buck during each successive year of its life, distinguishing the fawn from the pricket, the pricket from the sore, and so forth, as its age increased.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Why, there was a buck I had shot in Hogley Woods, a magnificent pricket, and do you know how she had it sent up to table?
From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Wilde, Oscar
And, to humour the ignorant, I have call'd the deer the Princess killed, a pricket.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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