pricket

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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

I sthe deer was not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.

From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William

And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur

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