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
Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.
From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson
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
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 John L. Cotter
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