pricker
noun/ˈpɹɪkə(ɹ)/
Etymology From prick + -er.
7 senses
1
One who pricks.
2
A tool for pricking.
- The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that.1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
3
A prickle or thorn.
4
Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
5
One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
- The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 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:
6
A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.