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 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
The preyful Princess pierc'd and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket; Some say a sore; but not a sore till now made sore with shooting.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
And, to humour the ignorant, I have call'd the deer the Princess killed, a pricket.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
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 William Shakespeare
