English Dictionary

prick

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪk/

動詞

他動詞 廃用 古風 自動詞 古語 句動詞 通常

(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. / (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing. / (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.

日本語の意味

（ファリリー作業で）馬の蹄に釘を打ち込み、歩行に支障をきたすようにする行為 / （狩猟において）殺害せずに撃つこと / 突き刺す、または穴をあけることで形を作る行為

The corrupt farrier decided to prick the horse's hoof to make it appear lame.

不正な蹄鉄師は、馬の蹄に釘を打ち込んで跛行しているように見せかけることにした。

意味（1）

(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

意味（2）

(transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.

They had shot at old Tom, the hare, too, but he is still alive; at least I pricked him yesterday morn across the path into the turnip field.

意味（3）

(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.

to prick holes in paper

意味（4）

(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.

Some who are pricked for sheriffs.

意味（5）

(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).

意味（6）

(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.

意味（7）

To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

The cooks …prick it [a slice] on a prog of iron.

意味（8）

(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.

A sore finger pricks.

意味（9）

(transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.

The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle.

意味（10）

(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.

Seed should be sown thinly and evenly to enable seedlings to be pricked out without disturbing those that have just emerged. If there is space, seedlings should be pricked out individually, either into small pots or module trays.

意味（11）

(transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.

My duty pricks me on to utter that.

意味（12）

(intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.

At last, as through an open plaine they yode, They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre ….

意味（13）

To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.

意味（14）

(transitive) To make acidic or pungent.

For then their late Attracts decline, And turn as eager as prick'd Wine

意味（15）

(intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

意味（16）

To aim at a point or mark.

This prayse belongeth to stronge shootinge and drawinge of mightye bowes, not to prickinge, and nere shootinge.

意味（17）

(obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.

pricks （ present singular third-person ）

pricking （ participle present ）

pricked （ participle past ）

pricked （ past ）