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 dogs did yell; put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Acheson, Arthur
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.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
The dogs did yell; put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket- Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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
