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Webster 1913 Edition


Pricket

Prick′et

,
Noun.
[Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See
Prick
, and cf.
Brocket
.]
(Zool.)
A buck in his second year. See
Note
under 3d
Buck
.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pricket

PRICK'ET

,
Noun.
A buck in his second year.

Definition 2024


pricket

pricket

English

Noun

pricket (plural prickets)

  1. (obsolete) A candle. [14th-17th c.]
  2. A spike for holding a single candle. [from 15th c.]
  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. [from 15th c.]
    • 1816, John Keats, "For there's Bishop's Teign":
      he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?