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pricket

pricket


prick·et    Audio Help   (prĭk'ĭt)   

n.  

    1. A small point or spike for holding a candle upright.

    2. A candlestick having such a spike.

  2. A buck in its second year, before the antlers branch.


[Middle English priket, diminutive of prik, prick, prick; see prick.]
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