pricket

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The appendage in question was named a "pricket bat", and it was used to burst balloons.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

Why, there was a buck I had shot in Hogley Woods, a magnificent pricket, and do you know how she had it sent up to table? 

From Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Wilde, Oscar

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)

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 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 Shakespeare, William