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pricket

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪkɪt/

The English word “pricket” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A candle.
  2. A spike for holding a single candle.
  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.

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.

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