The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pricket \Prick"et\, n. [Perhaps so called from the state of his
horns. See Prick, and cf. Brocket.] (Zo["o]l.)
A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A candle. (14th-17th c.) 2 A spike for holding a single candle. (from 15th c.) 3 A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. (from 15th c.)
WordNet
n. a sharp metal spike to hold a candle
male deer in his second year
Wikipedia
Pricket may refer to:
- A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched
- Abacuk Pricket, English seaman of the 16th/17th century
Usage examples of "pricket".
Saban taught Leir to use a bow and, on their last day, after Saban had brought down a pricket with a single arrow, he let Leir kill the beast with a spear.
The young males which our fallow deer do bring forth are commonly named according to their several ages: for the first year it is a fawn, the second a pricket, the third a sorel, the fourth a soare, the fifth a buck of the first head, not bearing the name of a buck till he be five years old: and from henceforth his age is commonly known by his head or horns.
It was a broad-based end discarded from one of the prickets in the wall brackets of the church, he found them useful for carrying on his errands because they would stand solidly on any flat surface, and run no risk of being overturned.