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pricket definition

pricket (prik′it)

noun

  1. a small spike on which to stick a candle
  2. a candlestick having such a spike
  3. a male fallow deer in his second year, with unbranched antlers

Etymology: ME pryket, dim.: see prick

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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