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noun
Prickle  n.  
1.
A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
2.
A kind of willow basket; a term still used in some branches of trade.
3.
A sieve of filberts, about fifty pounds. (Eng.)


verb
Prickle  v. t.  To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. "Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath."





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"Prickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... an' me was trespassin' ovver a compound wall after one of them mongooses 'at he'd started, an' we was busy grubbin' round a prickle-bush, an' when we looks up there was Mrs. DeSussa wi' a parasel ovver her shoulder, a-watchin' us. "Oh my!" she sings out; "there's that lovelee dog! Would he let ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... when I was a little bit of a girl, that I would be a missionary, but I should perfectly hate it now!" said Mary, with great vehemence. "I just hate to go to Sunday-school and be asked the questions; it makes me prickle all over. I always feel sorry when I wake up and find it is Sunday morning. I suppose you ...
— Betty Leicester - A Story For Girls • Sarah Orne Jewett
... peach ice-cream soda, and thereafter was nothing but sense of taste as she ecstatically drew through a straw the syrupy, foamy draught of nectar. She took small sips at a time and held them in the back of her mouth till every minute bubble of gas had rendered up its delicious prickle to her tongue. Her consciousness was filled to its uttermost limits with a voluptuous sense of present ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... was not merely an entirely unnecessary refusal, but the tone of the speech was nearly, if not quite, deliberately rude. It was a terribly big prickle, and showed itself perfectly distinctly. There wasn't even the smallest semblance ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore
... of such remote and ancient relics, which cannot be proved by any human testimony, must be admitted by those who believe in the miracles which they have performed. About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: [53] the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against religious ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon


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