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pricker
/ ˈprɪkə /
noun
- a person or thing that pricks
- a thorn; prickle
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One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels.
The knot in the loop was a conscience pricker, as he expressed it, that a Scout was pledged to do some one a good turn every day.
The whole affair goes safely in the pocket; the quill acting as a sheath to the sharp pricker.
We have seen that Henry Ogle had driven the Scotch pricker out of the country.
Take the lamp out and let me try if I can get the wick up with the pricker before I strike the match.
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