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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See

, and cf.

(Zool.)

A buck in his second year. See

under 3d

Shak.

Noun.

A buck in his second year.

pricket ‎(plural prickets)

(obsolete) A candle. [14th-17th c.]
A spike for holding a single candle. [from 15th c.]
A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. [from 15th c.]
- 1816, John Keats, "For there's Bishop's Teign":
  he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?