pricket
Example Sentences
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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 Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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
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
