pricket
nounUK /ˈpɹɪkɪt/
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.
1
Obsolete A candle.
2
A spike for holding a single candle.
- Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174:
3
A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
- Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter
- he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign: