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Pricker

noun
1.
A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.  Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn.
2.
An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.  Synonym: bradawl.






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"Pricker" Quotes from Famous Books



... word of English? You mind last year when he came down to Malwood, with his inner marshal and his outer marshal, his justiciar, his seneschal, and his four and twenty guardsmen. One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels. 'Ouvre,' he cried, 'ouvre,' or some such word, making signs for me to open the gate; and then 'Merci,' as though he were adrad of me. And you talk of an ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Pricker" :   aculeus, glochid, glochidium, awl, spikelet, spine, prick



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