pricket

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɪkɪt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A candle. obsolete
  2. A spike for holding a single candle.
    — Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.
  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
    — Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

词形变化

prickets plural

词源

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
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