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
Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.
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
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
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
