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 Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

The whole service was gilt, and the bequest included also a pair of magnificent pricket candlesticks, each nearly 20 inches high, with rich stems and massive scrolled bases.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)

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 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