1. a spike or pointed rod on which to stick a candle
2. a young male deer in its second year with straight unbranched antlers
Usage: hunting

Examples

• The medieval candlestick had a sharp pricket to hold the wax candle upright.
• She carefully pushed the candle onto the metal pricket.
• The brass pricket gleamed in the candlelight.
• The hunter spotted a pricket grazing near the forest edge.
• A pricket’s antlers are simple spikes without branches.
• The young pricket bounded through the meadow.