pricket

IPA(Pronunciation)

obsolete

Japanese Meaning

（古語）ろうそく / （古語）ろうそくを支えるためのくぎやとげ / （古語）角が分岐していない2歳の雄鹿

She lit a pricket before the portrait and watched its tiny light tremble.

彼女は肖像画の前でろうそくに火を灯し、その小さな灯りが揺れるのを見つめた。

Sense（1）

(obsolete) A candle.

Sense（2）

A spike for holding a single candle.

Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.

Sense（3）

A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.

he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

prickets

（ plural ）