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prickers

prickers is the plural of pricker.

Meaning of pricker

Noun

pricker (plural prickers)

  1. One who pricks.
  2. A tool for pricking.
    • The pricker was used to level the fire half-way up the bank and that was that.1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112
  3. A prickle or thorn.
  4. Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; greenbrier.
  5. One who spurs forward; a light-horseman.
    • The prickers, who rode foremost, […] halted.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
  6. A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery.

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Questions about prickers

What is prickers the plural of?
Prickers is the plural of pricker.

Words near prickers in the dictionary

  1. pricked up
  2. pricked up one's ears
  3. pricker
  4. prickerbush
  5. prickerbushes
  6. prickers
  7. prickery
  8. pricket
  9. pricketh
  10. prickets
  11. Prickett

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