pricket
Meanings
noun
- A candle.
- A spike for holding a single candle.
- A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
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