pricker
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪkə(ɹ)/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Noun
pricker (plural prickers)
- One who pricks.
- A tool for pricking.
- 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
- The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that.
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- A prickle or thorn.
- Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
- One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
- The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted.
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- A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery[1].
- (nautical) A small marlinespike used in sailmaking[2].
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References
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend
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