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631. IMG:content-0941.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In ichth ., the basking-shark. pricket (prik'et), n . [ priket , pryket ; prick + -et.] 1. A sharp iron point upon which a candle may be stuck; hence, a candlestick, either separate or one of several connected together. Also prick. Item, ij prikettys of silver. Invent . of Sir John Fastolf's Goods , Pas[ton Letters, I. 470. Hence-2. A wax taper. To carry to the chaundrie all the remaine of torches, pricketts , wholly and intirely. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), ii. 108. IMG:content-0942.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A buck in his second year: probably so called from his horns. See spike . I wont to raunge amydde the mazie thickette;... And joyed oft to chace the trembling Pricket.