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prickets

prickets is the plural of pricket.

Meaning of pricket

Noun

pricket (plural prickets)

  1. (obsolete) A candle.
  2. A spike for holding a single candle.
    • Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174
  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
    • Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

Questions about prickets

What is prickets the plural of?
Prickets is the plural of pricket.

Words near prickets in the dictionary

  1. prickerbushes
  2. prickers
  3. prickery
  4. pricket
  5. pricketh
  6. prickets
  7. Prickett
  8. prickette
  9. prickettes
  10. Pricketts
  11. prickface

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